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Random Acts of Cinema

Jul 26, 2021

It’s that time of the…decade again. And we’ve got international amateur athletic competition fever! In honor of the return of the Olympic Games to Japan, we’re watching one of the great documentaries on the subject: director Kon Ichikawa’s lyrical vision of the 1964 Tokyo games.

 

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Jul 19, 2021

We’re dipping back into the Henry James-adaptation pool with William Wyler’s Olivia de Havilland vehicle The Heiress, based on Washington Square.  Making this a period piece featuring a kind of funhouse love triangle where neither the dashing if penniless Morris (Montgomery Cliff) nor her father Dr. Sloper (Ralph...


Jul 12, 2021

We’re back with directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (AKA “The Archers”) for one of their all-time biggest pictures.  This time they rework and update a Hans Christian Andersen folk tale into a romance chronicling the ascending fame of a celebrated ballerina and the men competing for her love...


Jul 5, 2021

We’re back for a little welcome murder and mayhem with Jonathan Demme’s genre-defining take on, well, not just serial killer procedurals, but Hannibal Lector-based serial killer procedurals.  We cover it all this today’s episode, but we somehow always end circling back to how perfect this movie is.

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