Random Acts of Cinema

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!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be celebrating the 6th Annual Rando Awards!

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother (1999).

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Costa-Gavras' State of Siege (1972).

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985).

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993).

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Charles Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947).

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Henri-Georges Clouzot Wages of Fear (1952).

Special guest Michael Patrick Jann brings us an almost-lost character study of a young woman lost in a world that doesn't value her existence. Director/Writer/Star Barbara Loden crafts a little drama, a little crime, and all the grimey Pennsylvania you can handle. Understated and sublime; American independent cinema by a singular filmmaker who was way ahead of her time. Join our Patreon and support the podcast!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Roy Ward Baker's A Night to Remember (1958).

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).

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).