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Random Acts of Cinema

Feb 24, 2020

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).


Feb 17, 2020

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 speak in words beyond their years.  Fog.  Silhouettes in windows.  Antique clown dolls seemingly moving on their own accord....


Feb 10, 2020

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 World War 2, left unmoored and interred at a displaced persons camp in Italy. With no options remaining, she marries Antonio...


Feb 3, 2020

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 Jean-Luc Godard makes his first random appearance on the podcast with his French New Wave romp that spins 1940s Bogart...