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Random Acts of Cinema

Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson

Each week friends Mike and Charlie have Randy (the random number generator) select a film for them to watch from the Criterion Collection. Then they discuss and review it for your listening pleasure. It"s a podcast about the love of film, expanding horizons, painstakingly cataloging the duration of every long take, and friendship.

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01:28:42

33 - Nanook of the North (1922)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/12/12

Like the Documentary Now! spoof, we’re really more interested in our protagonist Nanook (Allakariallak) than the admittedly-groundbreaking documentarian Robert J. Flaherty. And sure, it’s obviously staged. But our survivalist hero sure knows how to use the hell out of a walrus tusk knife. It’s mesmerizing. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film,

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01:25:23

945 - A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/12/05

Uh oh. It’s a movie based on a play. Can the screen presences of Hollywood legends Sydney Poitier and Ruby Dee possibly transcend this stage-to-screen adaptation that only adds a couple of quick cut-away scenes of a single alternative setting to an otherwise one-room story? Well… yes. Pretty easily, it turns out. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922).

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01:12:54

410 - Under The Volcano (1984)

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2022/11/28

Special guest Max Rieger joins us this week as we dive into the volatile and fascinating world of 1938 Mexico in order to follow the last day in the life of… an alcoholic English misanthrope played by hunky 1980s dreamboat Albert Finney. Director John Huston’s adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s so-called “unfilmable,” semi-autobiographical novel is a raging, Joycian, stagger through a world on the precipice of war. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing A

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01:19:46

LD66 - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/11/21

Look, of course we want to just talk about Kevin Kostner’s 1991 masterpiece (the one they got right). But it’s just not in the collection. So I guess we’ll just watch this “Prince of Thieves” adaptation starring some guy named Errol Flynn in a pointy hat and tights. Maybe it’s good? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Huston Under the Volcano (1984).

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01:25:41

1129 - Rouge (1987)

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2022/11/14

Want to listen to a couple of dummies realize that there are such things as era-jumping supernatural romance films that are set in Hong Kong? And that everyone else already knew this? No? Well, at least they’re happy to report that it was a delightful surprise when they finally got around to seeing Stanley Kwan’s beloved film. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Kurtiz’s The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

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01:21:51

1116 - The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

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2022/11/07

Arousing action/drama by legendary director Robert Aldrich? Starring Jimmy Stewart?! Yes, please! Add to this some tense survival stakes, and a real man’s-man ensemble cast, and a dusty Sahara-meets-Lifeboat-meets-The-Great-Escape plot contrivances, and you know you’re in for a good time. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (1987).

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01:16:23

745 - Don’t Look Now (1973)

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2022/10/31

Just in time for the spookiest day of the year, we take a look at Nicolas Roeg’s classic meditation on death and loss set in perhaps the most melancholic and atmospheric place in the world. Ah, Venice… Venice in the Winter, that is. Things get sad and steamy for Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie who play a married couple mourning the death of a child try to move on while on a business trip amongst the canals and labyrinthine alleyways of the island city. And then people start seeing ghosts… If

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01:39:46

733 - La Dolce Vita

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2022/10/24

It’s Fellini-time! Somehow it took our random number generator 4 seasons to finally pick a film in the Criterion Collection by this legendary Italian director. But is all of the glamour and allure only ephemeral vanity in the acrid meaningless of it all? Hmmm, someone should make a movie about that… If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973).

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01:36:42

114 - My Man Godfrey (1936)

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2022/10/17

A “forgotten man” named Godfrey (played by the charming William Powell) finds a path to redemption when he’s hired on as the butler to the rich, bored, and otherwise useless Bullock family… for some reason? And he sure shows them a thing or two about their vapid existence as they all inevitably fall in love with him… for some reason? Regardless, this is a top-form Depression-era Hollywood wish-fulfillment fantasy. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:25:25

922 - The Other Side of Hope (2017)

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2022/10/10

Perhaps the most Finnish way to make a love letter to Finland is to make a movie that emphasizes a kind of remote inhabitability of a place and its people. No really: this movie about a deadpan population, their apathetic bureaucracy, an undercurrent of white nationalism in the streets of Helsinki, frigid weather, and truly unappetizing-looking food. And somehow under the direction of Aki Kaurismäki, the viewer - along with the lead character of a Syrian refugee struggling to survive in a cold,

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01:16:29

37 - Time Bandits (1981)

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2022/10/03

Time to mark off another square on your Terry Gilliam bingo card, because this week we are journey through time and space into the exquisitely crafted universe of a mad god. Which, coincidentally, is also the plot of his movie. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope (2017).

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01:18:36

975 - Funny Games (1997)

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2022/09/26

Content Warning: If you know, you know. Because this is Funny Games. A movie celebrated and criticized for its brutal and emotionally devastating depiction of violence, mental and physical torture, murder, and emotional distress. We discuss these features directly in this episode and consequently not all listeners may want to listen along. Skip this one if you are emotionally susceptible to the discussion of such subjects. Yep, its time for Funny Games. It wouldn't be a real investigation of

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01:35:48

29 - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

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2022/09/19

It turns out that while Mike knows EXACTLY what happed to the girls who disappeared on a school trip in Victoria on Valentine’s Day 1900, Charlie really doesn’t. Director Peter Weir’s period-set mystery explores the unknowable horror of gloves and corsets within the restrictive confines of the Australian landscape. Or maybe its the other way around? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997).

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01:24:46

839 - Boyhood (2014)

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2022/09/12

It’s weird to think of a film in the Criterion collection that took twelve years to make that doesn’t involve production delays. I mean, who does Richard Linklater think he is? Some sort of anti-Gilliam: casting children with the intent that they will literally mature into their roles, smoothly wrangling a crew for over a decade, adapting to the passage of time, all with a seeming sense of ease, deliberate planning, and foresight? And then to have the sheer nerve to put all of that effort toward

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01:30:25

1057 - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

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2022/09/05

Who would have thought that 23 years later we’d be having a conversation about how a Jim Jarmusch film starring Forest Whitaker as a samurai hitman for the mafia actually… holds up? Luckily we are joined by artist Alexandra Mavrikis to help us make sense of this puzzling realization. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2014).

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01:27:35

1172 - Mississippi Masala (1991)

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2022/08/29

Director Mira Nair plots a winding trajectory from Idi Amin’s forced removal of Asians from Uganda in 1973 to the struggles of a small-time owner-operator carpet cleaner in 90s Mississippi. All this serves as a foundation for a culture clash romance struggling to blossom amidst the demands and expectations of southern African-American identity and a very specific form of an Indian immigrant experience. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jim

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01:23:17

443 - La Ronde (1950)

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2022/08/22

Max Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of desire. Behaviors argued as so central to human experience, that this ensemble film, set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, exposes how the hidden mechanisms of storytelling reenforce and perpetuate the forever-repeating patterns of conquest and betrayal. The narratives are found in poetry, plays, and even in how Max Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of

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01:15:58

863 - Multiple Maniacs (1970)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/08/15

Thank God that Peaches Christ and Michael Varrati of the Midnight Mass podcast joined us for our third jump into the works of John Waters. Otherwise our conversation would lack a noticeable measure of knowledge, context, insight, wit, and depth. Which is what this film deserves. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Max Ophüls’ La Ronde (1950).

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01:18:15

951 - True Stories (1986)

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2022/08/08

This week’s guest Robert Saucedo, film-buyer of The Alamo Drafthouse, welcomes us to mid-80s, small-town Texas as commented upon by Talking Heads lyrics and the deadpan, obliquely humorous observations of David Byrne. John Goodman heads a cast of highly idiosyncratic, so-weird-they’re-normal/so-normal-they’re-weird characters honoring the state’s sesquicentennial by putting on their own “Celebration of Specialness.” If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:17:59

666 - The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/08/01

Oops! We uploaded the wrong audio file this morning! To those of you who thought we recorded “an avant-garde art piece”: we apologize. We’ve since fixed it and this new version should make a little more sense. Anyway… Guillermo del Toro’s devastating mash-up of children caught in the brutality of a Spanish Civil War-period thriller with the high-concept visuals of a supernatural presence has all of the hallmarks of a… Guillermo del Toro movie. Well, two of his movies, I guess. But the point is

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