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Random Acts of Cinema

Jan 30, 2023

Brian De Palma's Philadelphia-based thriller, steeped in paranoia-based conspiracy, pits a low-rent audio specialist (John Travolta) as an "ear witness" to an assassination.  He soon convinces a black-mailer (Nancy Allen) whose in over her head as his accomplice.  But deranged killer (John Lithgow) is out to tie off all...


Jan 23, 2023

Director Agnès Varda leads the viewer through over a decade in the lives of two friends, Apple and Suzanne, as they seek fulfillment and freedom, struggling against the demands of conservative French society over their bodies and presumed gender roles.  An emphatic and highly pragmatic celebration of liberal attitudes...


Jan 16, 2023

Czech director Juraj Herz takes us on a dreamlike journey into madness of an employee at a Prague crematorium both before and during the German invasion leading to the Second World War. Or is he really trying to account for the madness of collaboration in a nation struggling with its own involvement with the holocaust?...


Jan 9, 2023

You know those drab, mid-century French films where pale, thin guys in suits stare at each other with blank, unreadable expressions on there faces while a voiceover drones on describing this inaction with a slight undercurrent of pseudo-nihilism?  But, like, it’s somehow super thrilling AND deeply beautiful?  Robert...


Jan 2, 2023

Now wait just a minute here.  Let me try to get this straight.  You mean to tell me that Jimmy Stewart is a new deputy sheriff in town that doesn’t carry a gun, he avoids confrontation with a corrupt saloon owner, and Marlene Dietrich plays a brazen, world-weary singer with a heart of gold?  Well it sure seems like...