Random Acts of Cinema Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson

Director Henri-Georges Clouzot maps out one of the all-time great thrillers.  “Explosive” is the right word in all possible ways to describe this film.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Charles Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux (1947).

Is it about corporate greed run amok?  Class warfare?  Human indulgence?  Human suffering?  Uh… the hubris of man? Well, it’s definitely not about some dumb diamond necklace.  Roy Ward Baker’s all-time classic account of the sailing and sinking of the Titanic is far more than simply a blueprint for later, better retellings.  It may very well set the high watermark for them all.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Henri-Georges Clouzot Wages of Fear (1952). 

Special guest Michael Patrick Jann brings us an almost-lost character study of a young woman lost in a world that doesn’t value her existence. Director/Writer/Star Barbara Loden crafts a little drama, a little crime, and all the grimey Pennsylvania you can handle. Understated and sublime; American independent cinema by a singular filmmaker who was way ahead of her time. 

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Roy Ward Baker’s A Night to Remember (1958). 

Jacques Demy’s dazzlingly colorful palette that is perhaps more symphonic than it’s grand romantic score, sets the stage for a musical about young love and the obstacles it must endure in modern France.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970).

Sweeping vistas! Dangerous men driven by greed, glory, honor, and obsession! Is this what acclaimed epic director David Lean has in store for us today?  Well… it does feature some dramatically filmed trains.  That’s one of his things, right?
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).

I can’t help it if I’m scarred from too many bad 1980s and 90s comic book movie adaptations that weren’t faithful to the source material.  I know it shouldn’t matter.  Especially if the movie was made in the 1940s, it’s directed by podcast-favorites Powell and Pressburger, and it’s actually excellent.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945).