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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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01:36:35

994 - Local Hero (1983)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/05/31

We are joined by comedian and director Michael Patrick Jann (of The State and Michael Patrick Jann Can’t Direct Traffic) to discuss director Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero. A film where oil tycoon Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) tells Mac Macintyre (Peter Riegert) to go convince Urquhart (Dennis Lawson) and the other inhabitants of a small Scottish coastal town to sell out. But there’s one problem: the town is too charming!! Etc. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:34:32

100 - Beastie Boys Video Anthology (2000)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/05/24

It’s a big one. It’s our 100th episode so we’re watching Criterion spine number 100. And we brought in our first 3-peat all-star guest and super fan Shelley to talk with us all about the legacy of Beastie Boys music videos. You know, all the classics like… uh… “Intergalatic Spaceman”, “Rampage”, and my favorite “3 DJs and 1 MC.” If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983).

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01:15:55

LD144 and 1017 - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen...

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/05/17

As it turns out, the coexistence of two movies dedicated to the exploits of the fictionalized eighteenth-century German adventurer Baron Munchausen far from exclude one another from narrative authority. So for Mike’s birthday episode, why not just just do a double episode treating them like parts of an anthology that took a couple of centuries to make? We do just that with Karel Zeman’s 1962 The Fabulous Baron Munchausen and Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen of 1989. It’s Zeman’s

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01:39:25

LD133 - Bad Day at Black Rock

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/05/10

Is it a western/film noir mash-up, a subtly coded red scare-era warning, or a a heart-on-its-sleeve anti-racism morality tale? It definitely has a little of each, but is there enough of any to give Spencer Tracy’s oddly elderly WWII veteran a big enough stage to convince a desert town with a shameful secret to inspire a nation to live up to its principles? Not if Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, and Lee Marvin have anything to do with it. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be

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01:26:40

724 - All That Jazz (1979)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/05/03

Can Roy Scheider (playing Joe Gideon - a gossamer thin veiled version of director Bob Fosse) keep his addictions and self-destructive inclinations in check long enough to finish edits on a motion picture he’s directed while also choreographing a broadway musical extravaganza? Of course he can. But can he achieve true excellence in these tasks without succumbing to his most base impulses? Now that’s the question of the film. To answer this, Fosse sends up everyone including himself in this wry,

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01:19:43

835 - Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/04/26

“Dolls” mean pills. There, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way... Mark Robson’s epic movie about three women finding their ways through the obstacle-ridden world of entertainment, offers a soapy and campy take on ambition and those living in the orbit of successful women. Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate protagonize against a series of professional rivals, embattled romances, addictions, medical calamities, and oh-so-many personal demons to reach both dizzying highs and

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01:28:08

LD271 - Pulp Fiction (1994)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/04/19

Criterion 25:17. The path of the righteous podcast is beset on all sides by the inequities of the tasteless and the incompetence of bad movies. Blessed is he who, in the name of quality and good filmmaking, shepherds the listeners through the valley of movie reviews. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Mark Robson’s Valley of the Dolls (1967).

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01:35:16

926 - Manila in The Claws of Light (1975)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/04/12

It’s been a while since Randy picked something from a nation’s film output with which we have little-to-no familiarity. And a little 1970s Filipino cinema is just what we needed to break us out of the endless Criterion pattern of American/French/English/Japanese. With this - celebrated director Lino Brocka’s adaptation of a novel following a young man named Julio (played by Rafael Roco Jr.) who searches for his missing girlfriend through the poverty and exploitative working conditions of the big

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01:27:54

254 - The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/04/05

What’s better than a 1970s, grimy, sun-baked, L.A.-based neo-noir about a well-intentioned stripclub owner (played with all of the nervous swagger of a Ben Gazzara in his prime) with a gambling problem who gets in too deep with the mob? Two for the price of one, that’s what. This week we’re talking about both the theatrical release and unexpectedly shorter director’s cut of John Cassavetes’ under-appreciated classic. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:29:16

620 - Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/03/29

Ivan Reitman, the master of the 1980s family-friendly action comedy, steps boldly into the 90s with a playful reinvention of one of the most singular R-rated action movie marquee names of the 20th-century: Arnold Schwarzenegger. He plays detective John Kimble, an intimidating and violent cop who must transition to the gentler persona and methods of a small-town kindergarten teacher in order to uncover the identities of a mother (Penelope Ann Miller) and child (Christian and Joseph Cousins) hiding

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01:39:44

LD124 - Dr. No (1962)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/03/22

For Charlie's annual birthday episode, his very good friend Mike has chosen Terence Young's filmed adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Dr. No. That's right, there's technically a James Bond movie in the Criterion Collection. And since the birthday boy is a super-fan, eager for a soapbox upon which to blurt out decades of pent-up interpretations, criticisms, and hot takes, get ready for a wild ride. Songs about fruit! Solitaire in the dark! Women's sunglasses! It's all here. If you'd like to

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01:24:55

976 - Let the Sunshine In (2017)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/03/15

In a kind of alternate universe version of Trois Colours: Bleu, Juliette Binoche finds herself once more playing a Parisian woman, with an artistic bent, having lost her husband and daughter, navigating a second life in a search for new love and purpose. Except that this time no one is dead; she's just divorced. And rather than mourning her way from one brilliant visual to another to satisfy a decidedly male cinephile's gaze, Claire Denis directs Binoche (playing Isabelle) and a sequence of her

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01:12:23

973 - My Brilliant Career (1979)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/03/08

This week we are joined by podcaster Alexei Toliopolous (@ThisisAlexei) of Total Reboot, Finding Desperado, and Finding Drago to discuss his pick: Australian director Gillian Armstrong's first feature film My Brilliant Career. This groundbreaking film blends elements from the eponymous novel and biography of Miles Franklin, exploring her struggles for independence and creative success at the end of the nineteenth century. We discuss pillow fights, English country dance decorum, Sam Neill's iconic

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01:17:22

465 - Dodes’ka-den (1970)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/03/01

Three-peat! Director Akira Kurosawa's first color feature finds the tragedies and human strength in a small shantytown, inhabited by an ensemble cast each facing their own poverty-driven struggles. What follows is a categorization of the ways in which people contend with suffering: ranging from the inspiring and humorous, to the accepting and despairing. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be joined by a special guest (!!) to discuss and review Gillian Armstrong's My

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01:18:58

LD072 - West Side Story (1961)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/02/22

It's been a long time since we've had a musical on this podcast. And this is a big one. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' adapt the stage musical (which is - sort of - and adaptation of Romeo and Juliet) wherein two rival gangs sing and dance through fights and fight-dances and dance-fights. Maria (Natalie Wood) and Tony (Richard Beymer) are our star-crossed lovers trying to secure their love in the face of teen violence, police harassment, gang loyalties, and the crushing pressures of racism and

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01:20:52

738 - Tootsie (1982)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/02/15

Acclaimed American director Sydney Pollack examines the lives of struggling New York City actors working on a competitive and fraught soap opera. Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, a talented, but difficult, and under appreciated actor who financial needs and uncompromising nature lead him to take a role as a woman, played by a woman. Becoming an unexpected feminist icon, Michael further challenges societal demands on the accepted gender identities in 1980s America. Hard-hitting stuff. If you'd

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01:26:36

640 - Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/02/08

Shots of headlights in traffic, people going down escalators, whirring machinery in a factory, the Hoover dam, a lady smoking a cigarette, and a controlled demolition of a tenement high rise. All this is made at once familiar and deeply profound with sublime photography and a pulsing Philip Glass score. Godfrey Reggio’s first entry in the “qatsi” trilogy revels in the splendor of isolation and anonymity subjected onto humanity with our embrace of technology. Except everything looks

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01:15:20

725 - Eraserhead (1977)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/02/01

Get ready, Randy has picked another big one for us. And he actually picked the first film by a celebrated director for once. David Lynch's Eraserhead is such a desperately ambitious, risk-everything film that one is tempted to call it "groundbreaking" except for the fact that it's so unique in its vision and execution that you'd be hard pressed to name what it broke ground for. Jack Nance plays Henry, newly saddled with his helpless, mutated, infant offspring and coming face to face with surreal

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01:24:53

25 - Alphaville (1965)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/01/25

This is a big one that we’ve been waiting for: Jean-Luc Godard’s highly influential, widely lauded, experimental, sci-fi/noir mashup. Hard bitten detective Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine)has traveled through space in his Ford Galaxy to Alphaville, to uncover the mystery of a missing scientist. He finds a a strange, sterile, funhouse mirror of 1965 Paris, ruled by a cold omnipresent computer. Will the emotional awaking of Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina), the scientists daughter be enough to save

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01:21:02

843 - Punch Drunk Love (2002)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2021/01/18

What happens when two seemingly incompatible masters of their craft with nothing to prove get together to make an discomforting powder keg character study that dramatically ratchets its way into a desperately... sweet romance? You get director Paul Thomas Anderson's collaboration with Adam Sandler who plays Barry, a brow-beaten introvert who must contend with the demands of his bullying sisters, a phone-sex blackmail ring, and an unlikely love affair with the all-too understanding and equally

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