263 episodes

Each week friends Mike and Charlie have Randy (the random number generator) select a film for them to watch from the Criterion Collection. Then they discuss and review it for your listening pleasure. It’s a podcast about the love of film, expanding horizons, painstakingly cataloging the duration of every long take, and friendship.

Random Acts of Cinema Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson

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Each week friends Mike and Charlie have Randy (the random number generator) select a film for them to watch from the Criterion Collection. Then they discuss and review it for your listening pleasure. It’s a podcast about the love of film, expanding horizons, painstakingly cataloging the duration of every long take, and friendship.

    1012 - All About My Mother (1999)

    1012 - All About My Mother (1999)

    This podcast is dedicated to all podcasters who ever podcasted, all… Nevermind, Pedro Almodovar does it better in his tragic, heartwarming, found-family melodrama about an unlikely group of women who find one another in Barcelona. 

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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be celebrating the 6th Annual Rando Awards!

    • 1 hr 24 min
    760 - State of Siege (1972)

    760 - State of Siege (1972)

    Costa-Gavras puts the viewer in the middle of a two-sided conspiracy of wrestle power in an unnamed South American nation.  At its heart: a rebel-led kidnapping scheme to force the police state to release political prisoners. Corruption, torture, murder, and terror - all sponsored and plotted out by American “advisors” - are exposed in this chilling procedural.
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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother (1999).

    • 1 hr 17 min
    1185 - After Hours (1985)

    1185 - After Hours (1985)

    You know that Scorsese movie that everyone always forgets about but also everyone says that it's really their favorite?  What seems at first glance to be just another 80s comedy reveals itself to be a highly cinematic exploration of one man's polite decent into maddening frustration.  And we're joined by Derrick Scocchera to help find our way back uptown.
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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Costa-Gavras' State of Siege (1972).

    • 1 hr 47 min
    336 - Dazed and Confused (1993)

    336 - Dazed and Confused (1993)

    The real strength of Richard Linklater’s day-in-the-life ensemble film isn’t the cast of all-time 1990s heavy hitters. It isn’t the meticulous recreation of 1976 Austin, Texas. It’s not the teen comedy hijinks. It’s not the banging soundtrack. It’s more that all this combines to present to its film going audience a hyper-specific and long-lost subculture unlike any presented in the vast offerings of films tackling the lives of high school students.  
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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985).

    • 1 hr 24 min
    652 - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

    652 - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a deranged serial killer was convicted of seducing, marrying, robbing, and murdering over a dozen women.  It is believed that he killed many, many more than that.  So the lovable Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin, decided to portray him in a movie.  What’s his light-hearted take on this unexpected premise?  Human society is diseased and nothing matters.  In a funny way, though.
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    If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993).

    • 1 hr 12 min
    36 - Wages of Fear (1952)

    36 - Wages of Fear (1952)

    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).

    • 1 hr 25 min

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