Random Acts of Cinema

Feast your ears on a special release of the Patreon-only hit podcast Are You Friedkin Kidding Me? where your intrepid hosts (plus Alexandra!) watch the films of William Friedkin. This episode…. The poster, wherein a lady is sitting upon the face of a gentleman, says it all. But you may as well also know that it features a thrillingly slow car chase through the city of San Francisco (which is kind of a character in this film, if you think about it.)

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lean's Summertime (1955).

Feast your ears on a special release of the Patreon-only hit podcast Are You Friedkin Kidding Me? where your intrepid hosts (plus Alexandra!) watch the films of William Friedkin. This episode…. Well it's only his timeless 1990s erotic/thriller/horror masterpiece The Guardian! You'll never look at Los Angeles architecture the same way ever again!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lean's Summertime (1955).

Fresh off of his iconic career topping Dracula, director Tod Browning returns to his roots with a domestic drama/crime film cast almost entirely with side-show performers with little-to-no screen acting experience. The viewers are asked - and very much confronted with the question of - who are the REAL freaks?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lean's Summertime (1955).

Director/Writer/Star Albert Brooks reawakens an early shared film trauma of your two loyal hosts. Can this Uber-Boomer satire of drop-out idealists living in Reagan's America be salvaged? Might it even be... good?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Tod Browning's Freaks (1932).

Now that another season of Random Acts of Cinema has passed, Hollywood can finally take a moment to catch its breath before it must prepare another year of potential delights for us to mercilessly tear to shreds. Well, not really. It's just Rando Awards season, where your hosts reflect on and recognize the greatest things we saw in the Criterion Collection this year. Join us!

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It you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Albert Brooks' Lost In America (1985).

We are joined this week by Dan Connell for a lively discussion as the thriving, dynamic 1980s New York Ball Room scene is revealed to an unsuspecting world in Jennie Livingston's groundbreaking documentary.

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Next week you are cordially invited to attend next week's 7th Annual Rando Awards!

Bergman takes us on a journey into the past, to revisit youthful summer love. But don't worry: this is all seen through the memory of an emotionally detached beauty left unable to find meaningful emotional attachments following a pointless tragedy. But, maybe it does all of this in an uplifting way?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning (1990).

Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul weaves a mind-bending 'exquisite corpse'-style tale with sequences narrated by documentary subjects, theatrical troupes, group interviews, cinematic recreations, talk show hosts and more all found within the context of modern Thai city and country life. The trajectory and style of the story swings wildly between formats and genres limited only by the imaginations and tastes of these diverse contributors.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Ingmar Bergman's Summer Interlude (1951).

Lions! Tightropes! Clowns! Charlie Chaplin's last true silent film brings the big top to the big screen. Hijinks ensue.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mysterious Objects at Noon (2000).

But is it an allegory? Made under Nazi occupation, French filmmaker Marcel Carné created magical medieval fantasy about the devil and his minions who invade a castle full of beautiful, disillusioned lovers and wreak havoc. Maybe they can… love the devil away?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Marcel Carné's Les Visiteurs du Soir 1942).