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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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01:19:39

501 - Paris, Texas (1984)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/03/07

We’ve come stumbling out of the desert to share a pretty big episode this week - well, at least its a big one for your two hosts - as we dive back into the landscapes of Wim Wenders in one of his many great meditations on manhood, families, and America. And Harry Dean Stanton give a largely silent, but career-defining performance. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Lawerence Kasdan’s Silverado (1985).

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01:20:48

657 - 3:10 To Yuma (1957)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/02/28

Delmer Daves‘ all-time classic follows a struggling rancher (Van Heflin) who is recruited to transport a dangerous prisoner (Glenn Ford) to a train station, while being tracked by a violent gang of bandits. But, since it’s a 1950s western, what this movie actually is more of a rumination on what it means to be a man. Turns out that punctuality is pretty important component of that definition. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wim Wenders’ Paris,

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01:16:06

849 - His Girl Friday (1940)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/02/21

Take a deep breath and get ready for the break-neck paced day in the life of ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) and her conniving editor/ex-husband Walter Burns (Cary Grant) as love, life, and breaking the story are all on the line. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

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01:12:23

091 - The Blob (1958)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/02/14

This movie has a very accurate title. Director Irvin Yeaworth deserves some credit for this. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940).

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01:24:25

467 - Empire of Passion (1978)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/02/07

We return to the films of Nagisa Ōshima with a surprising erotic/crime thriller/ghost story set in… 19th-century Japan? Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, guess what? (It is.) If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Irvin Yeaworth’s The Blob (1958).

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01:32:57

787 - Jellyfish Eyes (2013)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/01/31

What happens when the high-art/low-art contemporary artist Takashi Murakami tackles the high-art/low-art film genre of…outcast kid moves to a new town but then find a magical creature who he fights against other kids in formulaic Pokémon-esque battles in order to discover the true meaning of friendship? Well, it turns out you kind of get a film using it’s nostalgic fantasy format to grapple with a nation’s collective trauma following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Kind of. If you’d like to watch

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01:39:39

891 - La Poison (1951)

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2022/01/24

Following last week's randomly-selected film, we are surprised that Randy has chosen for us another French absurdist comedy addressing the arbitrary and hypocritical nature of social standards of forbidden behavior. However this time we're given s somewhat more conventional comedic approach with Sasha Guitry's examination of spousal murder and the odd reactions it can engender in so-called polite cultural circles. Spoiler: it's actually pretty funny. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's

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01:12:25

290 - Phantom of Liberty (1974)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/01/17

We're heading back into the biting, social satire of Luis Buñuel with this absurdist comedy Phantom of Liberty. One scene blends into the next in this near-stream-of-consciousness dream-state that confronts the arbitrary standards of propriety that govern so-called polite society. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Sacha Guitry's Le Poison (1951).

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01:20:02

865 - Blow-Up (1966)

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2022/01/10

Are you ready for a tight, psychosexual thriller? Well instead, how about a movie that everyone claims to be one of those while it's really mostly a swinging 60s freak-out set in London? Really though, Michelangelo Antonioni's film is more about the power and violence of capturing life and illusions on film. Do you want to watch that movie? What if we promised you mimes...? If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Luis Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty

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01:14:17

855 - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/01/03

Want to listen to two straight guys stumble their way through a reading of Pedro Almodóvar’s classic film about a group of strong-willed Spanish women dealing with heartbreak, repression, insanity, and the harboring of terrorists… but it’s like, funny? This might not sound like a good sell, but we sure had fun. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966).

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01:29:17

LD120 - Raging Bull (1980)

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2021/12/27

It turns out that well-regarded film preservationist and historian Martin Scorsese also makes movies! And you know what? Some of them are surprisingly good. And he made this one with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci (of all people) about the troubled life of boxer Jake La Matta. It’s a sports movie! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).

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01:46:14

LD018 - It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

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2021/12/20

Hee haw! It’s time to cash in with a guaranteed shot at commercial appeal with a Christmas classic! But can Frank Capra and James Stewart’s heartstring-tugging piece of nostalgia-driven Americana break through our icy-cold critical defenses? This holiday-feast-sized episode might just surprise you. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martin Scorcese’s Raging Bull (1980).

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01:14:59

615 - The Gold Rush (1925 & 1942)

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2021/12/13

Come to think of it, we actually did watch an unofficial “snowy mining trilogy” with last week’s McCabe & Mrs. Millerand Gold Rush. Because we ended up watching both the original 1925 version of Charles Chaplin’s groundbreaking silent adventure AND the 1942 talkie re-release. Thank goodness. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

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01:28:38

827 - McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/12/06

… [mumble]… [murmur]… robert… [murmur]… altman… [mumble]… [glasses clinking]… [distant laughter]… brothel… [fiddle tuning] western… beatty… [mumble]… christie… [door creaking]… snowy mining town… If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Charles Chaplin’s Gold Rush (1925 and 1942).

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01:21:39

LD151 - Akira (1988)

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2021/11/29

This movie is about so much more than a rad futuristic red motorcycle ridden by a guy in a rad futuristic red leather jacket. But don’t worry, Katsuhiro Otomo’s all-time classic cyberpunk anime is still about those two essential elements. And I guess it’s also about the struggle to find dignity and purpose in the face of the cruel militarized totalitarian dystopian future of 2019. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs

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01:05:27

746 - A Day in the Country

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/11/22

Ten years after having abandoned a incomplete film, associates of director Jean Renoir gathered the footage and put together this less-than-feature-length film about a two young men who decide to spice up an afternoon by seducing the naive, Parisienne daughter and mother who have come to the country to enjoy a bit of nature. And one of these characters has an AMAZING mustache. Listen to this episode to find out who! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:26:21

277 - My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/11/15

Gus, River, and Keanu. Barns falling from the sky, narcolepsy, and Shakespeare. We know what you’re thinking: it sounds like we’re describing a movie about young male sex workers struggling to get by in the Pacific Northwest. Pretty obvious stuff. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country (1936).

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01:18:11

542 - Antichrist (2009)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/11/08

This film, and consequently this episode and our discussion, demands a disclaimer up top about its troubling content. As designed, Lars von Trier’s Antichrist stoked controversy at its release with its graphic depiction of sex, violence, sadism, misogyny, and death. If any listeners are sensitive to the discussion of these topics, they are encouraged to skip this episode. Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star as a grieving couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods as they attempt to cope

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01:25:10

338 - Equinox (1970)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/10/31

It’s a Halloween miracle! The kind where one of your favorite podcasts decides to release an episode about a spooky movie a day early so it comes out on the day in question. Wow. Good job, us. We’re watching the monster movie cult classic Equinox, which incorporates a sort of talent-reel of up-and-coming special effects maestro Dennis Muren into a mashed together series of narrative scenes directed by Jack Woods that pad it out to a feature length. More importantly though, we talk a lot about

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01:38:05

888 - Stalker (1979) with Chapter One: Take Two

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/10/25

A movie AND the book that it’s based on? What is this, an episode of Random Acts of Cinema or an episode of Chapter One: Take Two, amiright? Well, it’s actually both. This week we’ve teamed up with Briana and Maddy to do what they do with Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s classic literary science fiction masterpiece Roadside Picnic and Andrei Tartovsky’s classic cinematic science fiction masterpiece Stalker. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jack

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