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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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01:28:38

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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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01:12:18

761 - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

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2021/10/18

A historical-psycho-erotic surrealist film exploring themes of womanhood, Christianity, and Freudian-infused takedowns of family and cultural identity? Plus vampires?! Hey Criterion Collection: Get out of my head! Director Jaromil Jireš serves up a whimsically horrifying dreamscape in this seminal Czech New Wave classic. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be reviewing and discussing Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) with Briana and Maddy of the Chapter One: Take

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01:14:15

202 - Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) and...

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2021/10/11

This movie has some killer credits: Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift star in a Vittorio de Sica directed, David Selznick produced, Christian Dior costumed, Truman Capote dialogued romance set during a single night in the main train station in Rome. But does can a movie with these credits possibly live up to such lofty expectations? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jaromil Jireš’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970).

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01:19:43

779 - Mulholland Drive (2001)

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2021/10/04

It’s always a special, if troubling, time on this podcast when another David Lynch film is randomly selected. And this week we have his hotly-debated rejected-pilot-turned-feature film journey into the seductively decadent and disturbingly nightmarish world of Hollywood moviemaking. We even offer up our own - possibly original - interpretation of what the film is actually about. And that’s how you know we’ve officially fallen off the deep end. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we

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01:25:01

LD141- Carrie (1976)

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2021/09/27

Look: will we talk about the use of split screen? Of course we will. Will we talk about this early breakout supporting role for John Travolta? Yep. Will we talk about how these and more contribute to the manner of director Brian de Palma? You bet. But mostly Mike and I have been desperate to talk about Stephen King on the podcast. So get ready for lots of that. And lots of pig’s blood. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lynch’s

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01:24:10

857 - Before Sunrise (1995)

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2021/09/20

This week we revel in the lo-octane ease of 90’s independent filmmaking with Richard Linklater’s love letter to love and travel, and discussions about love and travel. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 90’s it up even more in a single evening long meet-cute set in Vienna, killing time until their departure in the morning. We discuss Linklater’s proclivity to long-term film projects, and whether or not this film anticipates its eventual decades-spanning trilogy. If you’d like to watch ahead for next

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01:30:17

811 - The Naked Island (1960)

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2021/09/14

Sorry this episode is posting a little late this week, but we wanted to add a little extra no-dialogue silence to our discussion of Kaneto Shindo’s similarly dialogue-free year-in-the-life of a family struggling to farm on a small isolated island. It’s a quiet film, to be sure, but full of nuance, rich humanity, and humble beauty. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995).

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01:16:13

906 - The Lure (2015)

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2021/09/06

This is a movie that sells itself. Director Agnieszka Smoczyńska‘s musical is about flesh-eating mermaids working in a sleazy cabaret/strip club in 1980s Poland. That deranged mash-up of a premise provokes just as varied of a series of responses: thrilling, unsettling, sexy, repulsive, funny, and despairing. With a kind of magical realism/urban fantasy/rock opera aesthetic, the director plays with feminine fears and desires in the face of a timidly repressive patriarchal society. If you’d like to

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01:12:55

204 - The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)

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2021/08/30

It’s first episode for one of our theme song directors! And one of your hosts went a little overboard getting up to speed with the works of Rainer Werner Fassbender. Honestly, a lot of the typical second-half of the twentieth century European auteur themes come up in this film except now we have a decade spanning domestic drama exploring of postwar…femininity. Hanna Schygulla plays the eponymous heroine, navigating the obstacles of survival in post World War II Germany as she fiercely waits and

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01:17:17

LD08 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

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2021/08/23

Boy oh boy, we really crack the nut of red scare allegories this time! Or we don’t. Hard to say which. But we have a great time talking about rural Southern California, divorce, imposters, whatever happens to the eponymous bodies, losing family and friends to right wing hysteria, Morticia Addams, and the Twilight Zone. Fun stuff! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Rainer Werner Fassbender’s Marriage of Maria Braun (1978).

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01:06:08

46 - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

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2021/08/16

The word “game” has two meanings. So that means that the title of director Ernest B. Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game can also mean…wait…oh no…oh god…run! RUN!! Anyway, it seems like we spend about as much time talking about Hard Target (1993) and Surviving the Game (1994) as we do the film in question. So get ready for a wild ride. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be reviewing and discussing Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

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01:09:31

692 - It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

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2021/08/09

“All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces.” You know what rhymes with “faces”? “Places”. Know what rhymes with “places”? “Faces”. If you like this kind of clever word play, except with more mother-in-law jokes, then have we got a mad cap flick for you! Director Stanley Kramer brings us an all-star (of sorts) comedic ensemble cast with his oft-parodied cross country race to unearth THOUSANDS of dollars. If only my gosh darn mother-in-law would get off of my back and let

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01:13:37

777 - The Brood (1979)

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2021/08/02

Why not just jumpstart the sub-genre of body horror by inventing a whole new pseudoscience called psychoplasmic therapy that allows for the fears of divorce, children, and past mental traumas to literally manifest themselves in growths, tumors, little blonde goblin killers, and a mounting body count? And if on top of all that, you happen to be legendary director David Cronenberg, why not make all of those things simultaneously beautiful, familiar, and disturbingly disgusting? If you'd like to watch

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01:28:54

155 - Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

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2021/07/26

It’s that time of the…decade again. And we’ve got international amateur athletic competition fever! In honor of the return of the Olympic Games to Japan, we’re watching one of the great documentaries on the subject: director Kon Ichikawa’s lyrical vision of the 1964 Tokyo games. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Cronenberg’s The Brood(1979).

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