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Random Acts of Cinema

Oct 31, 2021

It’s a Halloween miracle!  The kind where one of your favorite podcasts decides to release an episode about a spooky movie a day early so it comes out on the day in question.  Wow.  Good job, us.  We’re watching the monster movie cult classic Equinox, which incorporates a sort of talent-reel of up-and-coming special...


Oct 25, 2021

A movie AND the book that it’s based on?  What is this, an episode of Random Acts of Cinema or an episode of Chapter One: Take Two, amiright?  Well, it’s actually both.  This week we’ve teamed up with Briana and Maddy to do what they do with Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s classic literary science fiction...


Oct 18, 2021

A historical-psycho-erotic surrealist film exploring themes of womanhood, Christianity, and Freudian-infused takedowns of family and cultural identity?  Plus vampires?!  Hey Criterion Collection: Get out of my head!  Director Jaromil Jireš serves up a whimsically horrifying dreamscape in this seminal Czech New Wave...


Oct 11, 2021

This movie has some killer credits: Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift star in a Vittorio de Sica directed, David Selznick produced, Christian Dior costumed, Truman Capote dialogued romance set during a single night in the main train station in Rome.  But does can a movie with these credits possibly live up to such...


Oct 4, 2021

It’s always a special, if troubling, time on this podcast when another David Lynch film is randomly selected.  And this week we have his hotly-debated rejected-pilot-turned-feature film journey into the seductively decadent and disturbingly nightmarish world of Hollywood moviemaking. We even offer up our own -...