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Random Acts of Cinema

Jan 29, 2024

Content and Spoiler Warning:  This film dramatizes bullying, violence, against children, and a school shooting.  Those who may not want to listen to this episode should skip this one and join us next week.

Can an all-boys boarding school serve as a microcosm of an entire nation's fractured state of values?  More...


Jan 22, 2024

He lost his job.  He got his draft notice.  The only path forward for this cinefile is clear: alienate everyone in his life and fracture his sanity by filming a progressively more erratic week of his life.  Is he really searching for truth?  Is film even the right way to capture truth?  Does he really care about truth...


Jan 15, 2024

In the darkest of night, standing solitary vigil against the forces of evil: there stands the city’s only hope for justice, for vengeance, for truth. There stands… The Cameraman! Director Buster Keaton mines the depths of obsession and action in this late silent-era masterpiece  

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Jan 8, 2024

Director Frank Capra returns to the podcast with his Oscar-hording smash hit romantic comedy starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.  A glamorous heiress is on the run from her father as she embarks on a cross-country trek to get back to her playboy husband.  But a hard on his luck newspaperman knows a good story...


Jan 2, 2024

Director Spike Jonze upends Hollywood conventions in this mind-bending Malkovich.  Can Malkovich Malkovich before Malkovich Malkovich? 

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