Random Acts of Cinema
259 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsEach 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.
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1124 - Chan is Missing (1982)
May 01, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBJoe and Steve hit the pavement of San Francisco’s Chinatown and beyond, searching through a tapestry of Asian-American identities for a business partner who has run off with their money… or has he? Wayne Wang’s stripped-bare noir is less of an homage and more of an exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in a society that demands assimilation and refuses to accept. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love ...
814 - Lone Wolf and Cub (1972)
April 24, 2023 11:00 - 2 hours - 68.6 MBContent Warning: The films covered in this episode depict various scenes of sexual assault. Listeners who would not like to engage with this kind of material are encouraged to skip this one 200 eps! So we’re doing 200 movies to celebrate! Actually, just 6 movies. But there’s enough good stuff in these 6 for 200 normal films. Get ready for…Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone ...
094 - I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
April 17, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBPowell and Pressberger are at it again with another war-time charmer, this time set in rural Scotland! Local characters, local legends, local color, and local love sidetrack a focused young woman determined to get where she’s going! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be...
812 - The Player (1992)
April 10, 2023 19:37 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBOne of the hosts is almost positive that Robert Altman’s cutting satire of the Hollywood studio system has already been covered on the podcast. But that might just be due to the fact that he watches The Player too often. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing a...
1175 - Dune (1984)
April 03, 2023 13:32 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBDune. Arrakis. Podcast episode. We’re not the first to reassess David Lynch’s legendarily-disowned adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic novel, but we’re definitely the most recent (at time of this recording). Get into the Random Acts of Cinema Discord! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and...
735 - Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
March 27, 2023 17:10 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBThis 1966 Jack Nicholson-penned and Jack Nicholson-starring micro-western has all of the earmarks of a shaggy Head-era wannabe freak-out. But wait… Who’s that over there? Is that… Harry Dean Stanton wearing an eyepatch? Maybe, just maybe… If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lynch’s Dune (1984). Get into the Random Acts of Cinema Discord! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch...
447 Le Doulos (1962)
March 20, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBThe podcast FINALLY gets to discuss the master of French noir, Jean-Pierre Melville himself. Fedoras and trench coats? A jazzy score? Twists that you see coming and twists that you don’t? A lesson in hard-won and even harder-boiled loyalties? Mais bien sur! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be watching Monte Hellman’s...
LD19 - Blade Runner (1982)
March 13, 2023 13:59 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBWe’ve podcasted things you people wouldn’t believe. Like the international theatrical release version of Ridley Scott’s tech noir stunner starring Harrison Ford doing his uh… best?… voice-over narration. Mike picks this for Charlie’s annual incept-date show! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jea...
791 - Lady Snowblood Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
March 06, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBIs the solution to having not enough Lady Snowblood, just making more Lady Snowblood? The very concept of “the sequel” is methodically hunted down and eviscerated in this follow-up episode on a director Toshiya Fujita’s own follow-up to one of the best action movies of all time. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discus...
790 - Lady Snowblood (1973)
February 27, 2023 16:23 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBMike likes the sword hidden in a parasol. Charlie likes that it takes place during the Meiji era. But who are we kidding? The best part is that Toshiya Fujita’s visually dynamic action/revenge film really lives up to the title. Lady. Snow. Blood. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Toshiya Fujita’...
783 - Pather Panchali (1955)
February 20, 2023 12:30 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBSatyajit Ray's first installment of the Apu Trilogy, reigns as one of the greatest depictions of humanity ever recorded on film. But does it live up to all of the hype? Yes. It does. What a stupid question. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood (1973).
362 - Border Radio (1987)
February 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB“Punk rock died when the last kid said, ‘Punk’s not dead… punk’s not dead.’” Or maybe it died when Los Angeles punk frontman Jeff Bailey had to duck over the border into Mexico after stealing $1,000 and a handful of quaaludes from a club owner’s safe. Directors Allison Anders, Dean Lent, and Kurt Voss question all this and more in this classic independent film tracing the struggles of the band members, hangers on, and wife and child who are left behind. Good music too. *Come support the...
83 - The Harder They Come (1973)
February 06, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 53 MBYou know those movies that are about a young person full of promise, who comes to the big city in search of fortune and fame, but inescapable poverty and exploitative gatekeepers drive them to crime, oh and these movies also have a really good soundtrack? Well, this is one of those. And it’s probably the best version of all them, thanks to Jimmy Cliff. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and ...
562 - Blow Out (1981)
January 30, 2023 13:16 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBBrian De Palma's Philadelphia-based thriller, steeped in paranoia-based conspiracy, pits a low-rent audio specialist (John Travolta) as an "ear witness" to an assassination. He soon convinces a black-mailer (Nancy Allen) whose in over her head as his accomplice. But deranged killer (John Lithgow) is out to tie off all loose ends. All this and split screens! If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972).
978 - One Sings The Other Doesn’t (1977)
January 23, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBDirector Agnès Varda leads the viewer through over a decade in the lives of two friends, Apple and Suzanne, as they seek fulfillment and freedom, struggling against the demands of conservative French society over their bodies and presumed gender roles. An emphatic and highly pragmatic celebration of liberal attitudes toward sex and abortion rights, the film sets itself the lofty task of trying to set an example for women struggling against similar political and societal restrictions in the ...
1023 - The Cremator (1969)
January 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBCzech director Juraj Herz takes us on a dreamlike journey into madness of an employee at a Prague crematorium both before and during the German invasion leading to the Second World War. Or is he really trying to account for the madness of collaboration in a nation struggling with its own involvement with the holocaust? Well, we certainly can’t say, but this film certainly seems to ask that question. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our mer...
314 - Pickpocket (1959)
January 09, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBYou know those drab, mid-century French films where pale, thin guys in suits stare at each other with blank, unreadable expressions on there faces while a voiceover drones on describing this inaction with a slight undercurrent of pseudo-nihilism? But, like, it’s somehow super thrilling AND deeply beautiful? Robert Bresson brings his stripped-down style to this meditative procedural about a despondent, but highly-skilled criminal that set the standard for angsty crime films. If you’d like...
1024 - Destry Rides Again (1939)
January 02, 2023 12:30 - 1 hour - 35 MBNow wait just a minute here. Let me try to get this straight. You mean to tell me that Jimmy Stewart is a new deputy sheriff in town that doesn’t carry a gun, he avoids confrontation with a corrupt saloon owner, and Marlene Dietrich plays a brazen, world-weary singer with a heart of gold? Well it sure seems like director George Marshall had exactly that in mind in this classic comedy western. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store...
230 - 3 Women (1977)
December 26, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBTo steal (and completely spoil) Mike’s joke from the very end of this episode: we hope that you’re ready to listen to three men discuss 3 Women. Because we’re joined this week by Patrick O’Riley from the Vintage Video Podcast, who brings us Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek in Robert Altman’s mind-bending, identity-shattering, dream of a film. Or film of a dream? This is, apparently, up for debate. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch sto...
LD150 - Boyz N the Hood (1991)
December 19, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBJohn Singleton transforms the nostalgia-laden, American coming-of-age tale, establishing the iconic South Central setting at a crucial moment in American history. Already a political film, the director anticipates the Los Angeles riots and secures gangsta rap as the hub of early 90s culture. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week, we will be ...
33 - Nanook of the North (1922)
December 12, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBLike the Documentary Now! spoof, we’re really more interested in our protagonist Nanook (Allakariallak) than the admittedly-groundbreaking documentarian Robert J. Flaherty. And sure, it’s obviously staged. But our survivalist hero sure knows how to use the hell out of a walrus tusk knife. It’s mesmerizing. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next ...
945 - A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
December 05, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBUh oh. It’s a movie based on a play. Can the screen presences of Hollywood legends Sydney Poitier and Ruby Dee possibly transcend this stage-to-screen adaptation that only adds a couple of quick cut-away scenes of a single alternative setting to an otherwise one-room story? Well… yes. Pretty easily, it turns out. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922).
410 - Under The Volcano (1984)
November 28, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBSpecial guest Max Rieger joins us this week as we dive into the volatile and fascinating world of 1938 Mexico in order to follow the last day in the life of… an alcoholic English misanthrope played by hunky 1980s dreamboat Albert Finney. Director John Huston’s adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s so-called “unfilmable,” semi-autobiographical novel is a raging, Joycian, stagger through a world on the precipice of war. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and re...
LD66 - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
November 21, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBLook, of course we want to just talk about Kevin Kostner’s 1991 masterpiece (the one they got right). But it’s just not in the collection. So I guess we’ll just watch this “Prince of Thieves” adaptation starring some guy named Errol Flynn in a pointy hat and tights. Maybe it’s good? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Huston Under the Volcano (1984).
1129 - Rouge (1987)
November 14, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBWant to listen to a couple of dummies realize that there are such things as era-jumping supernatural romance films that are set in Hong Kong? And that everyone else already knew this? No? Well, at least they’re happy to report that it was a delightful surprise when they finally got around to seeing Stanley Kwan’s beloved film. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Kurtiz’s The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
1116 - The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
November 07, 2022 18:42 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBArousing action/drama by legendary director Robert Aldrich? Starring Jimmy Stewart?! Yes, please! Add to this some tense survival stakes, and a real man’s-man ensemble cast, and a dusty Sahara-meets-Lifeboat-meets-The-Great-Escape plot contrivances, and you know you’re in for a good time. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (1987).
745 - Don’t Look Now (1973)
October 31, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBJust in time for the spookiest day of the year, we take a look at Nicolas Roeg’s classic meditation on death and loss set in perhaps the most melancholic and atmospheric place in the world. Ah, Venice… Venice in the Winter, that is. Things get sad and steamy for Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie who play a married couple mourning the death of a child try to move on while on a business trip amongst the canals and labyrinthine alleyways of the island city. And then people start seeing gh...
733 - La Dolce Vita
October 24, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBIt’s Fellini-time! Somehow it took our random number generator 4 seasons to finally pick a film in the Criterion Collection by this legendary Italian director. But is all of the glamour and allure only ephemeral vanity in the acrid meaningless of it all? Hmmm, someone should make a movie about that… If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973).
114 - My Man Godfrey (1936)
October 17, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBA “forgotten man” named Godfrey (played by the charming William Powell) finds a path to redemption when he’s hired on as the butler to the rich, bored, and otherwise useless Bullock family… for some reason? And he sure shows them a thing or two about their vapid existence as they all inevitably fall in love with him… for some reason? Regardless, this is a top-form Depression-era Hollywood wish-fulfillment fantasy. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing a...
922 - The Other Side of Hope (2017)
October 10, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBPerhaps the most Finnish way to make a love letter to Finland is to make a movie that emphasizes a kind of remote inhabitability of a place and its people. No really: this movie about a deadpan population, their apathetic bureaucracy, an undercurrent of white nationalism in the streets of Helsinki, frigid weather, and truly unappetizing-looking food. And somehow under the direction of Aki Kaurismäki, the viewer - along with the lead character of a Syrian refugee struggling to survive in a ...
37 - Time Bandits (1981)
October 03, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBTime to mark off another square on your Terry Gilliam bingo card, because this week we are journey through time and space into the exquisitely crafted universe of a mad god. Which, coincidentally, is also the plot of his movie. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope (2017).
975 - Funny Games (1997)
September 26, 2022 17:28 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBContent Warning: If you know, you know. Because this is Funny Games. A movie celebrated and criticized for its brutal and emotionally devastating depiction of violence, mental and physical torture, murder, and emotional distress. We discuss these features directly in this episode and consequently not all listeners may want to listen along. Skip this one if you are emotionally susceptible to the discussion of such subjects. Yep, its time for Funny Games. It wouldn't be a real investiga...
29 - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
September 19, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBIt turns out that while Mike knows EXACTLY what happed to the girls who disappeared on a school trip in Victoria on Valentine’s Day 1900, Charlie really doesn’t. Director Peter Weir’s period-set mystery explores the unknowable horror of gloves and corsets within the restrictive confines of the Australian landscape. Or maybe its the other way around? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997).
839 - Boyhood (2014)
September 12, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBIt’s weird to think of a film in the Criterion collection that took twelve years to make that doesn’t involve production delays. I mean, who does Richard Linklater think he is? Some sort of anti-Gilliam: casting children with the intent that they will literally mature into their roles, smoothly wrangling a crew for over a decade, adapting to the passage of time, all with a seeming sense of ease, deliberate planning, and foresight? And then to have the sheer nerve to put all of that effort...
1057 - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
September 05, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBWho would have thought that 23 years later we’d be having a conversation about how a Jim Jarmusch film starring Forest Whitaker as a samurai hitman for the mafia actually… holds up? Luckily we are joined by artist Alexandra Mavrikis to help us make sense of this puzzling realization. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2014).
1172 - Mississippi Masala (1991)
August 29, 2022 14:20 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBDirector Mira Nair plots a winding trajectory from Idi Amin’s forced removal of Asians from Uganda in 1973 to the struggles of a small-time owner-operator carpet cleaner in 90s Mississippi. All this serves as a foundation for a culture clash romance struggling to blossom amidst the demands and expectations of southern African-American identity and a very specific form of an Indian immigrant experience. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing J...
443 - La Ronde (1950)
August 22, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBMax Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of desire. Behaviors argued as so central to human experience, that this ensemble film, set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, exposes how the hidden mechanisms of storytelling reenforce and perpetuate the forever-repeating patterns of conquest and betrayal. The narratives are found in poetry, plays, and even in how Max Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocr...
863 - Multiple Maniacs (1970)
August 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBThank God that Peaches Christ and Michael Varrati of the Midnight Mass podcast joined us for our third jump into the works of John Waters. Otherwise our conversation would lack a noticeable measure of knowledge, context, insight, wit, and depth. Which is what this film deserves. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Max Ophüls’ La Ronde (1950).
951 - True Stories (1986)
August 08, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBThis week’s guest Robert Saucedo, film-buyer of The Alamo Drafthouse, welcomes us to mid-80s, small-town Texas as commented upon by Talking Heads lyrics and the deadpan, obliquely humorous observations of David Byrne. John Goodman heads a cast of highly idiosyncratic, so-weird-they’re-normal/so-normal-they’re-weird characters honoring the state’s sesquicentennial by putting on their own “Celebration of Specialness.” If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing ...
666 - The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
August 01, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBOops! We uploaded the wrong audio file this morning! To those of you who thought we recorded “an avant-garde art piece”: we apologize. We’ve since fixed it and this new version should make a little more sense. Anyway… Guillermo del Toro’s devastating mash-up of children caught in the brutality of a Spanish Civil War-period thriller with the high-concept visuals of a supernatural presence has all of the hallmarks of a… Guillermo del Toro movie. Well, two of his movies, I guess. But the po...
999 - Matewan (1987)
July 25, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBThe devil walks among us! And his name is… Chris Cooper? That can’t be right. Find out the real name of Satan by listening to our thoughts on John Sayles’ period drama about the fight for labor rights between 1920s West Virginian coal miners and the company men sent to put sow discord and drive out union members by any means necessary. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001).
967 - I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
July 18, 2022 13:57 - 1 hour - 39 MBBeatlemania is both plot device and backdrop in first-time director Robert Zemeckis’ period comedy about a cluster of Jersey teens screaming and shenanigan-ing around New York City in pursuit of the Fab Four on the day of their generation-defining appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001).
627 - The Game (1997)
July 11, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBThis week we are joined by Cameron Kunzelman of Just King Things, Game Studies Study Buddies, and a host of other podcast projects as part of Ranged Touch in order to break down the layers of perceived reality in David Fincher’s mind-bending Michael Douglas-led thriller. Or does Cameron only think he’s participating in a harmless movie podcast? Wait a minute… is The Game even in the Criterion Collection? Is this microphone even real? Is there a team of paramedics secretly waiting in the ...
856 - Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
July 04, 2022 16:06 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBWith his ensemble album smash hit Buena Vista Social Club musician Ry Cooder introduced the world to a generation of twentieth-century Cuban musicians made obscure by time, trends, and world politics. Then he worked with past collaborator director Wim Wenders, returning to Havana, to put these talented performers on the big screen. An array of talented characters tell their own stories and showcase their timeless skills. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be dis...
4th Annual Rando Awards
June 27, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBIt’s time for our annual review of the highs and lows of a bunch of movies picked by a random number generator. And it turns out that this system really paid off this year, bringing us a truly eclectic list of memorable, challenging, and occasionally delightful Criterion films. But which of these select few will go home with a coveted Randy award? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be kicking off season 4 with Wim Wenders’ Buena Vista Social Club (1999).
676 - I Married a Witch (1942)
June 20, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBBriana and Maddy of the Chapter One: Take Two podcast join us this week to discuss director René Clair’s screwball jaunt through the centuries as a mischievous and thoroughly evil witch (Veronica Lake) and her father (Cecil Kellaway) plot to torment the modern-day descendent (Frederick March) of the pilgrim who burned them at the stake. With his political future, public reputation, impending marriage, life, and sanity at risk, can this proto-Bewitched cast a love spell instead?6 Join us n...
905 - The Breakfast Club (1985)
June 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBThis week we are joined by Michael Patrick Jann, director of the upcoming film Organ Trail and member of The State, to watch John Hughes’ all-time classic teen drama The Breakfast Club. We talk a little about fashion, a little about lunch, and a lot about the ego, Jungian self, and gestalt therapy. And, it should be said, crass sex jokes. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing René Clair’s I Married a Witch (1942).
1061 - Minding the Gap (2018)
June 06, 2022 15:28 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBDan Connell from the Cinderella Storiez podcast brings us a moving documentary that is - at first glance - about skateboarding in Rockford Illinois. But being made from footage gathered for years by seldom-on-screen director Bing Liu, Minding the Gap turns into a surprisingly gentle exploration of young men finding their path’s forward as they confront their experiences with domestic abuse. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Hugh...
466 - In The Realm of the Senses (1976)
May 30, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBThings get decidedly erotically unrestrained in Nagisa Oshimi’s tale of a maid and her employer’s headlong dive into sex and obsession in 1930s Tokyo. And who better to have an open and mindful discussion about kinks and boundaries that with Kevin Allison of Risk! the podcast and comedy group The State. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap (2018).
157 - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
May 23, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBWe’re joined this week by Richard and AJ of the Cult Popture podcast to try to wrap our heads around all things Wes Anderson: symmetrical framing, meticulous production design, quirky soundtracks, the inevitable backlash, and the even more inevitable enduring love (some of us have) of his films. And what better way to start this with the Gene Hackman-led ensemble that is The Royal Tenenbaums. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Nagisa Ōsh...