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Random Acts of Cinema

By: Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson
  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • 716 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
    Apr 29 2024

    Jacques Demy’s dazzlingly colorful palette that is perhaps more symphonic than it’s grand romantic score, sets the stage for a musical about young love and the obstacles it must endure in modern France.

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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970).

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • 76 - Brief Encounter (1945)
    Apr 22 2024

    Sweeping vistas! Dangerous men driven by greed, glory, honor, and obsession! Is this what acclaimed epic director David Lean has in store for us today? Well… it does feature some dramatically filmed trains. That’s one of his things, right?

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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • 173 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
    Apr 15 2024

    I can’t help it if I’m scarred from too many bad 1980s and 90s comic book movie adaptations that weren’t faithful to the source material. I know it shouldn’t matter. Especially if the movie was made in the 1940s, it’s directed by podcast-favorites Powell and Pressburger, and it’s actually excellent.

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    *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 David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945).

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    1 hr and 29 mins

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