Random Acts of Cinema Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson

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).

Can we chalk this up as another Walter Matthau all-time slam-dunk that most people have never heard of? Or is this old man spy caper exactly what it looks like?  We are joined by the duo Brad and Jake from the Never Did it podcast as we race across the globe in search of a potential antidote to Moonraker (which Charlie still thinks is a very good old man spy caper for some reason).
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1946).

Singular-voiced American comedic auteur Bobcat Goldthwait writes, directs, and stars in his absurdist satire of the 1980s stand-up comedy scene reimagined as a grimey city infested with infighting sub-castes of clowns whose insecurities, addictions, and lack of talent lock them in a perpetual rut of demeaning gigs, black-out benders, and petty jealousies.  But one stands apart: Shakes.  Perhaps the most talented and definitely the most alcoholic and self-sabotaging of them all.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Ronald Neames’ Hopscotch (1980).

René Lalou’s timeless (well, maybe not exactly) hand drawn science fiction epic turns a skeptical eye on human systems of power in an unimaginable world of inhuman blue giants (that are somehow even more human).  You know: it’s your basic Jack and the Beanstalk meets Avatar situation.  With better (by which I mean funkier) music.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bobcat Goldthwait’s Shakes the Clown (1991).

The good days are long past for Chan and Leung, a couple slowly drifting apart, and losing themselves in the oncoming wave of modernity consisting of unemployment, debt, loneliness, and alienation.  But since Edward Yang directed it, somehow it’s all beautiful.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing René Lalou’s Fantastic Planet (1973).