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PODCAST

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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01:14:24

999 - Matewan (1987)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/07/25

The devil walks among us! And his name is… Chris Cooper? That can’t be right. Find out the real name of Satan by listening to our thoughts on John Sayles’ period drama about the fight for labor rights between 1920s West Virginian coal miners and the company men sent to put sow discord and drive out union members by any means necessary. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001).

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01:23:48

967 - I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/07/18

Beatlemania is both plot device and backdrop in first-time director Robert Zemeckis’ period comedy about a cluster of Jersey teens screaming and shenanigan-ing around New York City in pursuit of the Fab Four on the day of their generation-defining appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001).

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01:38:11

627 - The Game (1997)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/07/11

This week we are joined by Cameron Kunzelman of Just King Things, Game Studies Study Buddies, and a host of other podcast projects as part of Ranged Touch in order to break down the layers of perceived reality in David Fincher’s mind-bending Michael Douglas-led thriller. Or does Cameron only think he’s participating in a harmless movie podcast? Wait a minute… is The Game even in the Criterion Collection? Is this microphone even real? Is there a team of paramedics secretly waiting in the next

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01:27:03

856 - Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/07/04

With his ensemble album smash hit Buena Vista Social Club musician Ry Cooder introduced the world to a generation of twentieth-century Cuban musicians made obscure by time, trends, and world politics. Then he worked with past collaborator director Wim Wenders, returning to Havana, to put these talented performers on the big screen. An array of talented characters tell their own stories and showcase their timeless skills. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:59:17

4th Annual Rando Awards

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/06/27

It’s time for our annual review of the highs and lows of a bunch of movies picked by a random number generator. And it turns out that this system really paid off this year, bringing us a truly eclectic list of memorable, challenging, and occasionally delightful Criterion films. But which of these select few will go home with a coveted Randy award? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be kicking off season 4 with Wim Wenders’ Buena Vista Social Club (1999).

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01:23:26

676 - I Married a Witch (1942)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/06/20

Briana and Maddy of the Chapter One: Take Two podcast join us this week to discuss director René Clair’s screwball jaunt through the centuries as a mischievous and thoroughly evil witch (Veronica Lake) and her father (Cecil Kellaway) plot to torment the modern-day descendent (Frederick March) of the pilgrim who burned them at the stake. With his political future, public reputation, impending marriage, life, and sanity at risk, can this proto-Bewitched cast a love spell instead?6 Join us next week

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01:27:16

905 - The Breakfast Club (1985)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/06/13

This week we are joined by Michael Patrick Jann, director of the upcoming film Organ Trail and member of The State, to watch John Hughes’ all-time classic teen drama The Breakfast Club. We talk a little about fashion, a little about lunch, and a lot about the ego, Jungian self, and gestalt therapy. And, it should be said, crass sex jokes. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing René Clair’s I Married a Witch (1942).

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01:07:11

1061 - Minding the Gap (2018)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/06/06

Dan Connell from the Cinderella Storiez podcast brings us a moving documentary that is - at first glance - about skateboarding in Rockford Illinois. But being made from footage gathered for years by seldom-on-screen director Bing Liu, Minding the Gap turns into a surprisingly gentle exploration of young men finding their path’s forward as they confront their experiences with domestic abuse. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Hughes’ The

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01:19:23

466 - In The Realm of the Senses (1976)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/05/30

Things get decidedly erotically unrestrained in Nagisa Oshimi’s tale of a maid and her employer’s headlong dive into sex and obsession in 1930s Tokyo. And who better to have an open and mindful discussion about kinks and boundaries that with Kevin Allison of Risk! the podcast and comedy group The State. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap (2018).

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01:15:36

157 - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/05/23

We’re joined this week by Richard and AJ of the Cult Popture podcast to try to wrap our heads around all things Wes Anderson: symmetrical framing, meticulous production design, quirky soundtracks, the inevitable backlash, and the even more inevitable enduring love (some of us have) of his films. And what better way to start this with the Gene Hackman-led ensemble that is The Royal Tenenbaums. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Nagisa Ōshima’sThe

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01:10:04

LD136 - Arsenic & Old Lace (1944)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/05/16

Things aren’t quite what they seem in the old childhood home of recently married ace reporter Mortimer Brewster’s (Cary Grant) old house over in Brooklyn. It turns out that his sweet spinster aunts have been poisoning lonely old men and burying them in the basement. Frank Capra’s cherished adaptation of the hit stage comedy set the tenor for the ghoulish/cute aesthetic that rings so true with secret goths, like our birthday boy Mike. Happy birthday Mike! And enjoy this piece of cake that I made

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01:16:49

844 - One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/05/09

A Marlon Brando western? Directed by… [checks notes]… Marlon Brando?!! Get ready for a wild ride of betrayal, passion, quick-draw dive-jumps, a fair amount of mumbling dialogue, and a whole lot of handsome. But enough about us, let’s talk about the movie… If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

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01:22:20

077 - And God Created Woman (1956)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/05/02

How many times do you think that Mike will bring up Serge Gainsbourg in an episode about a movie that has nothing to do with him? The answer is one more than the amount of times that Charlie all-too-casually mentions second-wave feminism. This must mean that we are watching Brigitte Bardot's breakthrough starring vehicle about love, lust, freedom, and the sandy beaches of St. Tropez. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Marlon Brando's One-Eyed

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01:12:36

370 - The Emperor Jones (1933)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/04/25

Dudley Murphy’s adaptation of this Eugene O’Neill picaresque play follows the tumultuous rise of Pullman porter Brutus Jones, played by the peerless Paul Robeson. We are taken through musically-punctuated examples of the early twentieth-century African American experience until Jones’ ambition and hubris drive him to become the despot of a Caribbean island. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman (1956).

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01:35:58

720 - The Big Chill (1983)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/04/18

On this week's episode, [needle drop: classic Motown song about hanging out with friends] your hosts settle in with couple of old college friends (Shelley and Max of The Spirit Guides Podcast) in a big house for a couple of days to [needle drop: classic light acid rock song about recording a podcast] watch Lawrence Kasdan's star-studded film and [needle drop: classic pop song about times going by] ruminate about times gone by . Is this movie about cool adults...or insufferable sell-outs? And if

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01:11:41

LD226 - The Last Laugh (1924)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/04/11

Imagine a time in history where a film about a man losing his job - a job that defines him, giving him pride and respect in his community - explores the desperation and humiliation of demotion but it doesn’t end in a bloodbath. Different times. Not that F.W. Murnau’s proto-Brazil silent film pulls any punches. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill (1983).

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01:16:53

1119 - Hudson Hawk (1991)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/04/04

The Hawk is on the loose! Michael Lehmann’s heist-oriented comic action movie is a widely panned example of true 1990s Hollywood excess. But, what if the hosts of a podcast based on the sophisticated films of the Criterion Collection actually…love the movie? Look, while this episode begins on the premise of an Aprils Fool’s joke, the tone immediately settles on genuine admiration. Also, we recorded this several week’s before this film’s lead, Bruce Willis, announced his retirement. As a couple

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01:26:15

868 - Tampopo (1985)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/03/28

We hope that you’re hungry for this week’s episode because we’re watching Juzo Itami’s great cinematic love letter to ramen. Even more than that, this fantastical narrative jumps between a dizzying array of comic vignettes exploring all things food. It’s a feast of good food, bad food, good manners, bad manners, high cuisine, and road side grub. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing F.W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh (1924).

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01:36:07

002 - Seven Samurai (1954)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/03/21

It goes without saying that this is a big one for us. Akira Kurosawa’s classic tale of peasants-seek-samurai/samurai-get-crew-together/samurai-kill-bandits is both a highly influential titan in 20th-century cinema and perhaps one of the most defining films of the Criterion Collection. But will our episode attain similar lofty heights among movie podcasts? Well, Takashi Shimura is standing over there with the barest hint of a smile in his eyes giving us a single nod of approval. So, yeah. I

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01:29:33

LD118 - Silverado (1985)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/03/14

This year, Mike has selected Lawerence Kasdan’s star-studded, rollicking western update as his “gift” for the birthday boy Charlie. Why? That’s still a little unclear, but your hosts are still delighted by this crowd-pleasing action/western. So gear up with your pearl-handled colt, fancy 2-gun rig, derringer, boot knife, or a Henry rifle for each hand and ride out with us to save Linda Hunt at all costs. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Akira

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