Random Acts of Cinema
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 80 minutes
- Episodes
- 327
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
661 - Marketa Lazarova (1967)
Now we’re getting into it. This is the real deep-level Criterion Collection stuff here. Legendary - but largely unknown in the U.S. - all-time Czech historic cinema: František Vláčil's 1967 medieval …
446 - An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
This is the second of two iconic Japanese filmmakers in a row. Last week we went big with Kurosawa so that can only mean Yasujiro Ozu is next. His Autumn Afternoon of 1962 brings us into the gentle…
138 - Rashomon (1950)
This is a big one. If we were to compile our top 10 most “classic” Criterion titles, this film would be somewhere on that list. Probably. At least that’s what we are going to find out for sure in t…
350 - Seduced And Abandoned (1964)
What’s the perfect follow-up to a gritty tale of crime in 1981 Chicago? Why, it could only be a 1964 Italian social satire of love, family, Sicilian customs, and the law! Pietro Germi’s Seduced and …
691 - Thief (1981)
We jump forward 26 years to go on a caper with Michael Mann's Thief of 1981. It's got everything: perpetually wet city streets, magic hour danish, and an entirely non-comedic performance by Jim Belus…
213 - Richard III (1955)
We're off to a truly grand start of our self-determined but entirely aimless journey through the Criterion Collection with Sir Laurence Olivier's 1955 filmed adaptation of William Shakespeare's Richa…
000 - Introduction & The Premise
Quiet on the set! Before we start watching movies, come an meet your hosts: Mike and Charlie. We lay out the structure and rules of the podcast, discuss why we wanted to do this in the first place, a…