Random Acts of Cinema

Sometimes all you need is a little classic Hollywood glamour.  Jean Arthur and Cary Grant put on some saucy hats and deliver just that it is this action/adventure story about the daring lives of... u…

You know what would just be wonderful right about now?  A delightful and beloved French farce.  Edouard Molinaro’s classic tale of two gay nightclub owners’ attempt to put on a show of conservative d…

Danny Boyle is on the board!  And in uncharacteristic fashion, we’re actually taking a look at the earlier film of a celebrated director rather than some weird, later period film.  The randomness of …

On this week’s episode we turn the podcast up to eleve... Oh god.  What am I doing?  What have I become?  With all of these quotable lines, super-clever improv, bad accents, hilarious songs, and tigh…

The seedy, hand-to-mouth, day-to-day scramble in the life of a press agent in New York City seems an unlikely setup for a cruel and bitter piece of star-studded film noir.  But Tony Curtis and Burt L…

Randy has been selecting a lot of spooky films for use recently, and the trend continues with Masaki Kobayashi’s 1965 horror anthology Kwaidan.  We’re treated to four eerie tales adapted from the col…

This movie is famous because of it’s hilariously clunky acronym.  And you only THINK you know what it stands for.  That’s just the first surprise that this old school VHS never-rent has in store for …

Ein Fritz Lang Film! And its a nightmarish psychological crime thriller that was banned by the Nazis no less!  It’s also, strangely, a kind of sequel to two different and previously unrelated Lang fi…

We have our first sample of Jim Jarmusch with this little gift that Mike chose for Charlie’s extra-special birthday episode.  Is this classic three-part anthology set in crumbling Memphis environs a …

Bob Rafelson’s Head offers an acid-dipped, musical journey through the artistic and professional frustrations of the Monkees, post TV show and struggling apologize for their existence with the veryla…

This is a big one folks. We’re starting our foray into the films of Ingmar Bergman with his (and maybe even the Criterion Collection’s) most iconic film: The Seventh Seal. Death! The Plague! Chess! H…

Podcast Episode.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bob Rafelson’s Head (1968).

A rambling old English manor.  Maze-like hallways leading to shuttered, dusty rooms. Whisperings of derangement, obsession, and suicide.  Music boxes in minor keys.  Creepy, dead-eyed children who sp…

Famed Neo-realist Roberto Rossolini cast an unlikely Ingrid Bergman as the lead in his 1950 film Stromboli. She plays Karin Bjornsen, a displaced and now stateless Lithuanian at the conclusion of Wor…

In Made In U.S.A., Anna Karina plays a Philip Marlowe-inspired hard-boiled-but-in-a-A-line-dress detective scouring the underbelly of Atlantic-Cité for the killer of her murdered boyfriend.  Director…

We’re taking a break from our normally scheduled podcast for a very special episode.  In remembrance of director Terry Jones, who passed away just before this recording, we watched his all-time comed…

Director Steve McQueen’s first feature film goes deep into the circumstances of a series of prisoner protests in Northern Ireland in 1981.  With a clinical and procedural examination of their bodies …

This is a documentary about celebrated Danish director Carl Theodore Dreyer that was released in the Criterion Collection in tandem with a collection of his celebrated films.  So, it’s time to learn!…

Luis Bunuel joins illustrious list of directors to be featured on our podcast.  What an honor!  And in classic, Random-Acts-of-Cinema-fashion, we’re going to start with a later film in a filmmaker’s …