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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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01:21:00

1001 - The Daytrippers (1996)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/04/28

Greg Mottola’s takes the viewer on a frantic ride through Manhattan… and into our hearts. Sort of. Really he just reaffirms our love for Parker Posey and somehow gets one of the hosts on the side of Leiv Schrieber for the first time. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing

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01:22:20

4 - Amarcord (1974)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/04/21

It’s number 4. It’s Fellini. It’s a beloved and highly influential 1970s nostalgia-infused takedown of everyday people living in and under fascist Italy. And yet for all of these things, it’s truly one of a kind. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Greg

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01:11:50

243 - French Cancan (1955)

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2025/04/14

There’s a reading of this movie as Jean Renoir’s exercise in delayed gratification. What’s a cancan? Is that a cancan? Will they cancan? Oh no they can’t cancan!! But maybe, just maybe… No they can’t! And then just when you’ve given up all hope: they can cancan! And by god, they do. (Spoiler alert.) Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If

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01:19:26

490 - City of Angels (1998)

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2025/04/07

Director Brad Silberling’s modern spiritual masterpiece dares to propose a world filled with unseen angels, who look upon humanity with a detached sense of whimsy. Until a brash, brilliant, and beautiful heart surgeon dares to question a universe who steals the life of one of her patients, and one of these angels… falls for her. In more ways than one. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch

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01:31:04

334 - Harlan County USA (1976)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/03/31

Come gather 'round children, it's high time ye learned. About a hero named Harlan County and a devil named Duke Power. The fight never stops. And Barbara Kopple’s beautifully specific and devastatingly timeless documentary about a grueling coal miner’s strike won’t let us forget it. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch

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42:51

The Top 10 of Our 10 Out of 10s

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/03/30

Bonus episode drop! We recorded this a while ago, but we’re finally releasing the rankings of our 10 highest rated criterion movies. Sure we each gave Rashomon 10 out of 10. But we also gave The Seventh Seal 10 out of 10. So… which is better? All questions will be answered! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more!

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01:14:22

300 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/03/24

Please come celebrate our 300th episode with spine number 300! We grapple with our legacy, come to terms with our many failures, reaffirm old friendships, get matching outfits, mourn our losses, go on one last adventure, and have a few laughs. And because it’s Wes Anderson, we can’t help but fall for yet another flawed father figure. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts,

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01:18:33

689 - Trances (1981)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/03/17

Your humble hosts stumble happily headlong into the world of avant-pop Moroccan folk music! This week we watch what seems to be a proto-version of The Last Waltz (even though it’s not) with a documentary chronicling some of the past and and a lot of the present of the group Nass El Ghiwane. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to

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01:28:25

LD131 - From Russia With Love (1963)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/03/10

Bond is back! …to this podcast. We swing back into the world of Ian Fleming with the second film adaptation of his books, and perhaps the most faithful to the original source material. So does that mean the movie will be MORE or LESS racist/misogynist? Pour yourself a martini and join us to find out. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If

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01:22:55

LD36 - The Producers (1968)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/03/03

For this week’s episode your hosts intentionally try to make the WORST episode they’ve ever recorded. No wait, that’s what this Mel Brooks movie is about. Oh, now I remember: this is actually the BEST episode we’ve ever recorded. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and

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01:24:30

1242 - The Shape of Water (2017)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/02/24

One of us is prepared to insist that this Academy Award winning film is more than just “that fish-sex movie.” A little behind the scenes: in our recording schedule notes Mike keeps writing the title of this movie as “Shapes of Water”. For those of you who know him to be a fully-committed listman and self-professed admirer of Guillermo del Toro, this is shocking. This may is your first hint of his true feelings about this film. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the

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01:18:40

715 - Bay of Angels (1963)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2025/02/17

Director Jacques Demy returns to the podcast with a notably non-musical romance this time. Gone are the songs and vibrant colors, instead we are given… crushing, co-dependent gambling addictions? Can a platinum blonde Jean Moreau give us hope? Maybe just one last spin… Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for

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01:13:27

368 - Corridors of Blood (1959)

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2025/02/11

Spoiler alert. In this movie Christopher Lee stabs Boris Karloff and Boris Karloff throws acid in Christopher Lee’s face. And there’s some stuff about 19th century medical experiments, but mostly that first part. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jacques

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01:10:23

895 - David Lynch The Art Life (2016)

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2025/02/04

Neither a documentary on the films of David Lynch nor a film about the man we knew as David Lynch. But an account of a young man who through circumstance and single-minded drive, would find himself in and construct just the sort of environment that could form a David Lynch. Directors Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon Nguyen, and Rick Barnes put the camera on a man making art and a microphone on a man looking back at his early life. And they leave it up to us to make connections between the two. Join the

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01:30:07

408 - Breathless (1960)

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2025/01/27

For one of us, this is where it all began. You leave me breathless… ahhhhh…. That’s from a different movie though. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon Nguyen, and Rick Barnes’David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)

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01:19:56

473 - The Insect Woman (1963)

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2025/01/20

This week we return to the Shohei Imamura’s “Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes” collection with his “entomological study” of one woman’s lifelong struggle for survival and purpose in a cruel modern world. Style, ambiguity, and shock mark this as a classic Imamura story. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next

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01:01:54

1174 - Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)

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2025/01/13

Legendary 1980s/90s Hong Kong/Hollywood action auteur John Woo sets an early pace for his legendary career with a period-kung fu movie about two swordsman-buddies caught in the midst of a bloody revenge plot between warring clans. Spoiler alert: there's a martial arts master whose style is "asleep." Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If

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01:31:26

401 - Night On Earth (1991)

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2025/01/06

From the clanky jangle of that first Tom Waits song to that jangly clank of the last Tom Waits song, you know you are in for a treat. Jim Jarmusch pops back up on the show with his humanist anthology of five stories set in cabs, each taking place in a different city on the same night. Winona, Gena, Giancarlo, Armin, Rosie, Isaach, uh.. Beatrice, Roberto, and … Matti? Look he went truly international with his cast, so I can’t name them all off the top of my head. Join the Random Acts of Cinema

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01:19:41

539 - House (1977)

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2024/12/30

Cat, piano, well, watermelon, mirror, bananas. You know, you're basic horror movie formula. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi spins a eerily formulaic but wildly unanticipate-able story of teens. And death. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jim

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01:25:20

55 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2024/12/23

What says “Merry Christmas” more than a sexy tale of infidelity and alienation set against the backdrop of soviet invasion and oppression? In the Criterion Collection? Not much. Join us as we discuss Phillip Kaufman’s adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel of Prague Spring and its aftermath, starring some distractingly beautiful people. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts,

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