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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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01:24:46

839 - Boyhood (2014)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

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)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

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)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

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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01:14:24

999 - Matewan (1987)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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