Random Acts of Cinema

Kubrick is on the podcast! Or at least one of his films was finally randomly selected for the first time. And he gives us a self-produced, time-zagging, bracingly-funny, bloody, homage-satire of hard-boiled noir.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990).

We return once more to the Godzilla Showa-era films with Jun Fukuda's 1974 introduction of some kind of a… Robo-Godzilla! I think that's what they call it. And some aliens. Oh, and there's a new surprise secret monster called King Caesar also. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

Director Arthur Crabtree delves into the late 1950's world of atomic, Cold War, body-snatching paranoia except that he kind of… doesn't? Honestly this Canada-set, B-movie, Sci-fi, creature flick feels more like a proto-Cronenberg film where it really counts.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jun Fukuda's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974).

Researchers at Stanford University conducted a decades-long experiment wherein Koko, a female gorilla, was taught American Sign Language. The findings and the ethics of this experiment were then (and remain today) controversial. Director Barbet Schroeder captures intimate footage of Koko, scholars, and her caretakers, leaving the viewer to be charmed by Koko and come to their own conclusions about whether a gorilla can and should be taught how to converse at a high level with humans.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without A Face (1958).

American masculinity is fully skewered. Finally. Actually, I guess everyone is skewered is Alexander Payne's black-hearted comedy about a Midwest American high School student… election. Opinions are divided on this one.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Barbet Schroeder's Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978).

Wong Kar Wai brings us - way back - to lovelorn Hong Kong. Upon discovering that their spouses are having an affair with with one another, two neighbors strike up a sad acquaintance that soon blossoms into an unrequited affair of their own. Of course, this makes no sense because who would ever cheat on Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung? But that's not really the point. The point is cigarette smoke and silk dresses.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Alexander Payne's Election (1999).

I don't think we're in the standard spine numbers anymore, Toto… Because we're returning to the Laser Disc collection with this all-timer. Are we doing this in honor of the upcoming release of the second Wicked movie? No. No we are not.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000).

The most accurate description of this episode is that we review 6 Short Films starring W.C. Fields. The idea is that he's arrogant jerk. That's pretty much it. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz (1939).

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. 3 months before this, in an act of desperate love, a sex-reassignment surgery was planned and subsequently botched. And a punk/drag icon was born. John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig croons, screams, and stage-banters her way into our hearts. Don't let the fact that this is TECHNICALLY a rock opera (ugh) dissuade you from putting on your foam wig and experiencing this all-time indie classic.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing W.C. Fields - 6 Short Films (1933).

Frankenhiemer returns to podcast with a… weird art film? Sort of. All of the paranoia, threatened masculinity, mid-century gloss, and decaying middle-class domesticity of The Manchurian Candidate remain, but the potboiler-thriller plot is replaced with… vibes.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001).