Random Acts of Cinema

Mar 03 2025 300 ep. 80 mins 77

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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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LD36 - The Producers (1968)

Mar 03 2025 82 mins

For this week’s episode your hosts intentionally try to make the WORST episode they’ve ever recorded. No wait, that’s what this Mel Brooks movie is about. Oh, now I remember: this is actually the BEST episode we’ve ever recorded. 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 stor

1242 - The Shape of Water (2017)

Feb 24 2025 84 mins

One of us is prepared to insist that this Academy Award winning film is more than just “that fish-sex movie.” A little behind the scenes: in our recording schedule notes Mike keeps writing the title of this movie as “Shapes of Water”. For those of you who know him to be a fully-committed listman and self-professed admirer of Guillermo del Toro, this is shocking. This may i

715 - Bay of Angels (1963)

Feb 17 2025 78 mins

Director Jacques Demy returns to the podcast with a notably non-musical romance this time. Gone are the songs and vibrant colors, instead we are given… crushing, co-dependent gambling addictions? Can a platinum blonde Jean Moreau give us hope? Maybe just one last spin… Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you

368 - Corridors of Blood (1959)

Feb 10 2025 73 mins

Spoiler alert. In this movie Christopher Lee stabs Boris Karloff and Boris Karloff throws acid in Christopher Lee’s face. And there’s some stuff about 19th century medical experiments, but mostly that first part. 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, hoodie

895 - David Lynch The Art Life (2016)

Feb 03 2025 70 mins

Neither a documentary on the films of David Lynch nor a film about the man we knew as David Lynch. But an account of a young man who through circumstance and single-minded drive, would find himself in and construct just the sort of environment that could form a David Lynch. Directors Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon Nguyen, and Rick Barnes put the camera on a man making art and a microph

408 - Breathless (1960)

Jan 27 2025 90 mins

For one of us, this is where it all began. You leave me breathless… ahhhhh…. That’s from a different movie though. 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 dis

473 - The Insect Woman (1963)

Jan 20 2025 79 mins

This week we return to the Shohei Imamura’s “Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes” collection with his “entomological study” of one woman’s lifelong struggle for survival and purpose in a cruel modern world. Style, ambiguity, and shock mark this as a classic Imamura story. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone

1174 - Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)

Jan 13 2025 61 mins

Legendary 1980s/90s Hong Kong/Hollywood action auteur John Woo sets an early pace for his legendary career with a period-kung fu movie about two swordsman-buddies caught in the midst of a bloody revenge plot between warring clans. Spoiler alert: there's a martial arts master whose style is "asleep." Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and g

401 - Night On Earth (1991)

Jan 06 2025 91 mins

From the clanky jangle of that first Tom Waits song to that jangly clank of the last Tom Waits song, you know you are in for a treat. Jim Jarmusch pops back up on the show with his humanist anthology of five stories set in cabs, each taking place in a different city on the same night. Winona, Gena, Giancarlo, Armin, Rosie, Isaach, uh.. Beatrice, Roberto, and … Matti? Look he went

539 - House (1977)

Dec 30 2024 79 mins

Cat, piano, well, watermelon, mirror, bananas. You know, you're basic horror movie formula. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi spins a eerily formulaic but wildly unanticipate-able story of teens. And death. 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,