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Random Acts of Cinema

Sep 25, 2023

A uproarious takedown of English class and gender constructions… or a staunch defender of them?  At least one of us thinks that this very ambiguity is the whole fun of Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s classic stage comedy.

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Sep 18, 2023

Agnès Varda returns to the podcast with her charming little love story about a happy guy, his happy wife, and his happy mistress.  It’s all very nice and sweet.  No problems at all.  Nope.  It’s all good.

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Sep 11, 2023

David Cronenberg just might be the only director capable of adapting William S. Burroughs’ drug-fueled descent into paranoia, isolation, murder, conspiracy, hallucination, depravity, and… self-actualization?  The director’s visionary deadpan perfectly places a stoney-faced Peter Weller into a world of beetle-like...


Sep 4, 2023

Things get dark this week, noir and otherwise in Nicholas Rey’s brooding and prescient look into a doomed and toxic relationship. Humphrey Bogart makes his first appearance on the podcast with one of his best.

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