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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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01:29:14

1100 - The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2024/09/16

Balancing on the razor-thin edge between the pedantic “what would REALLY happen if a guy kept slowly shrinking?” with “sure nerd, but let’s still make it a fun story”, Jack Arnold directs a domestic drama, a survivalist story, and everything in between as he questions foundational questions of existing in his classic science fiction tale. Perceptions of safety, masculinity, and the infinite shift and fade in this allegory of manhood in the modern age. Join our Patreon and support the podcast!

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01:25:00

Bonus Episode! - Cyberzone (1995)

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2024/09/11

In celebration of Fred Olen Ray’s 70th birthday, we’re sharing an bonus episode of Going Over Our Freds (a podcast hosted by our past-guests Kennedy and Meridith) that Mike joined in on a while back. Enjoy their discussion of Cyberzone (also known as Droid Gunner), starring… Marc Singer!

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01:23:06

1155 - Cure (1997)

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2024/09/09

Kevin Allison (Risk! and The State) joins us to talk about Kyoshi Kurosawa’s hypno-thriller - a term I’ve invented which cheapens the film - and he directs the conversation toward Carl Jung’s concept of the “shadow”, which thankfully re-elevates the film. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! 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

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01:30:04

107 - Mona Lisa (1986)

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2024/09/02

This week the question is asked: does having had read The Deadly Percheron enhance the viewing experience of this grimy, English, 80s neo-noir about sex work, blackmail, and unrequited love? It turns out that this doesn’t really matter, because… Bob Hoskins. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! 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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01:30:51

723 - Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

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2024/08/26

Coming of age story? Sexual awakening? Road trip movie? These all characterize Alfonso Cuarón’s tale of two young men and one women whose lives intersect for a brief period one summer… kind of. While this film displays a keen understanding of convention it constantly subverts expectations and values along and becomes something all the more charming, touching, challenging, and political at heart. Two future superstars, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna alongside Maribel Verdu, propel this still

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01:20:41

306 - Le Samouraï (1967)

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2024/08/19

Certainly not the arty-ist neo-noir ever made, but it’s certainly the most Jean-Pierre Melville-ian neo-noir ever made. And that’s more than enough to make this one of the most widely-beloved of all Criterion films. Alain Delain (who sadly passed away between our record and the release date for this episode) brought Tokyo-cool, Parisian romanticism, and American grime to this epitome of the “cool assassin” film. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord

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01:20:33

1103 - Once Upon A Time In China (1991)

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2024/08/12

Can Master Wong navigate China into the 20th-century and past the obstacles of modernity, invasive western culture, and a whole host of outside threats to tradition? Of course he can. But even he’s got to admit: he looks pretty good in a boater hat and sunglasses. Tsui Hark’s epic kung fu period action/comedy pits western powers, local corruption, modern technology, and the stubborn refusal to adapt against a ragtag group centered around a fighting school and its stoic martial arts master played

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01:30:04

459 - The Exterminating Angel (1962)

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2024/08/05

When 20 or so upper class reveler’s end up at a post-opera gathering hosted by one of their peers, everything seems perfectly… polite. But then director Luis Buñuel imparts upon them the one unbreakable rule of the film: no one can ever leave the well-appointed drawing room. Ever. What follows is a study in the logistics of human survival, depravity, and an allegory of the lies we tell ourselves as we sink into fascism. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema

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01:35:18

304 - The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

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2024/07/29

“Bowie to Bowie… Come in Bowie…” So begins a completely unrelated piece of Bowie-related media that one of us wishes he watched instead. Come have a listen to find out which of us has the appetite (or patience?) for a Nicolas Roeg-directed 1970s dystopian science fiction film starring a beguiling and beloved pop star at the top of his game. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love

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01:14:25

744 - Every Man For Himself (1980)

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2024/07/22

Jean-Luc Godard returns to the podcast with a stylish and cunning exposé of modern French man. Or rather, a study of how women deal with the intransigent, petulant, sometimes comical, and always fragile masculinity of the perpetually dissatisfied narcissists that demand their attentions. Two such long-suffering women are played by Nathalie Baye and Isabelle Hubert as entirely pragmatic and fully self-aware Parisian women coping with the surprisingly similar needs of lovers, pimps, johns, and…

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01:14:07

645 - The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

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2024/07/15

Kabuki and 1950’s studio style combine in Keisuke Kinoshita’s lavish and heart-wrenching account of a rural Japanese family planning for and coping with the responsibilities and struggles of ubasute - a village’s custom to carry elderly family members to a mountaintop in winter and abandon them. Gorgeous set and production design add a compelling dynamism to an otherwise carefully plotted family drama. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here

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01:09:36

840 - The Executioner (1963)

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2024/07/08

Internationally-neglected Spanish auteur Luis García Berlanga enters the collection neither with a bang, a whimper, a chop, nor a zap… but with a silenced gasp. His celebrated black comedy somehow managed to slip past Franco’s censors to show us a man slowly, haplessly, and inevitably lured with only the best intentions to utterly compromise his moral values. It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to be suckered into doing it. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema

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02:10:54

6th Annual Rando Awards

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2024/07/01

And with the coming of another Rando Awards, so too passes another season of Random Acts of Cinema. Join us as we look back and reflect on all the bests and the worsts of a solid year of Criterion films. 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 Luis Garcia

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01:24:10

1012 - All About My Mother (1999)

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2024/06/24

This podcast is dedicated to all podcasters who ever podcasted, all… Nevermind, Pedro Almodovar does it better in his tragic, heartwarming, found-family melodrama about an unlikely group of women who find one another in Barcelona. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! 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

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01:17:53

760 - State of Siege (1972)

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2024/06/17

Costa-Gavras puts the viewer in the middle of a two-sided conspiracy of wrestle power in an unnamed South American nation. At its heart: a rebel-led kidnapping scheme to force the police state to release political prisoners. Corruption, torture, murder, and terror - all sponsored and plotted out by American “advisors” - are exposed in this chilling procedural. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself

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01:47:17

1185 - After Hours (1985)

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2024/06/10

You know that Scorsese movie that everyone always forgets about but also everyone says that it's really their favorite? What seems at first glance to be just another 80s comedy reveals itself to be a highly cinematic exploration of one man's polite decent into maddening frustration. And we're joined by Derrick Scocchera to help find our way back uptown. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or

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01:24:58

336 - Dazed and Confused (1993)

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2024/06/03

The real strength of Richard Linklater’s day-in-the-life ensemble film isn’t the cast of all-time 1990s heavy hitters. It isn’t the meticulous recreation of 1976 Austin, Texas. It’s not the teen comedy hijinks. It’s not the banging soundtrack. It’s more that all this combines to present to its film going audience a hyper-specific and long-lost subculture unlike any presented in the vast offerings of films tackling the lives of high school students. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join

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01:12:43

652 - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

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2024/05/27

At the beginning of the 20th century, a deranged serial killer was convicted of seducing, marrying, robbing, and murdering over a dozen women. It is believed that he killed many, many more than that. So the lovable Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin, decided to portray him in a movie. What’s his light-hearted take on this unexpected premise? Human society is diseased and nothing matters. In a funny way, though. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord

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01:25:55

36 - Wages of Fear (1952)

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2024/05/20

Director Henri-Georges Clouzot maps out one of the all-time great thrillers. “Explosive” is the right word in all possible ways to describe this film. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! 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 Charles Chaplin’s

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01:26:23

7 - A Night to Remember (1958)

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2024/05/13

Is it about corporate greed run amok? Class warfare? Human indulgence? Human suffering? Uh… the hubris of man? Well, it’s definitely not about some dumb diamond necklace. Roy Ward Baker’s all-time classic account of the sailing and sinking of the Titanic is far more than simply a blueprint for later, better retellings. It may very well set the high watermark for them all. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast

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