Sep 30, 2019
Bowie! Sakamoto! Obsession! Uh, POW camp! And...war atrocities!? Torture? Ritual suicide? A subtle exploration of the despondency of an officer in charge of a prison camp facing the different cultural interpretations of the honor of surrendering while simultaneously tormented by his absence at the coup d'etat and...
Sep 23, 2019
Stylistic pastiche. Symmetrical framing. Murray. Schwartzman. 1960s-centric jukebox soundtrack. It looks like this must be our first Wes Anderson movie. A tale of young love set against scouting, parents in a failing marriage, a lovelorn “cop”, and an oncoming storm of the century combine to either charm or annoy...
Sep 16, 2019
We're back into The Collection with another heavy-hitter. And it's our first foray into the French New Wave film's of Francois Truffaut. Paris! Kidnapping! Murder! Secret identities! Flashbacks! Shoot-outs in the snow! Oddly-subtitled novelty songs! Does this movie really have it all?!
If you’d like to watch ahead...
Sep 9, 2019
Is the 11th episode the right time for a podcast retrospective? It is if you need to hand out a bunch of prestigious Randies, the official awards of the Random Acts of Cinema podcast. Come join us as we put order to all of the randomness by deciding which of the first 10 films we’ve watched are the best of the best...
Sep 2, 2019
Hitchock. Bergman. Peck. And...Salvador Dali? Sounds about right. Let’s see whether or not using psychoanalysis and the combined dream-logic of cinema and surrealist art as devices to advance the plot of a thriller actually works.
If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, well, we won’t be...