326 - Metropolitan (1990)
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Finally, a movie comes along with the guts to ask the question: can you be a Fourierist AND a Vebleninian at the same time? Explore this question and more at the Manhattan debutante ball season after parties of Whit Stillman’s career defining entrée about class, love, and pretentious discussion topics. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Juan Bustillo Oro’s Dos Monjes (1934).
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575 - The Killing (1956)
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Kubrick is on the podcast! Or at least one of his films was finally randomly selected for the first time. And he gives us a self-produced, time-zagging, bracingly-funny, bloody, homage-satire of hard-boiled noir. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990).
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1000 - Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
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We return once more to the Godzilla Showa-era films with Jun Fukuda’s 1974 introduction of some kind of a… Robo-Godzilla! I think that’s what they call it. And some aliens. Oh, and there’s a new surprise secret monster called King Caesar also. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing...
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92 - Fiend Without A Face (1958)
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Director Arthur Crabtree delves into the late 1950’s world of atomic, Cold War, body-snatching paranoia except that he kind of… doesn’t? Honestly this Canada-set, B-movie, Sci-fi, creature flick feels more like a proto-Cronenberg film where it really counts. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Jun Fukuda’s Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla...
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340 - Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978)
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Researchers at Stanford University conducted a decades-long experiment wherein Koko, a female gorilla, was taught American Sign Language. The findings and the ethics of this experiment were then (and remain today) controversial. Director Barbet Schroeder captures intimate footage of Koko, scholars, and her caretakers, leaving the viewer to be charmed by Koko and come to their own conclusions about whether a gorilla can and should be taught how to converse at a high level with humans. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or...
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904 - Election (1999)
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American masculinity is fully skewered. Finally. Actually, I guess everyone is skewered is Alexander Payne’s black-hearted comedy about a Midwest American high School student… election. Opinions are divided on this one. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Barbet Schroeder’s Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978).
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147 - In The Mood For Love (2002)
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Wong Kar Wai brings us - way back - to lovelorn Hong Kong. Upon discovering that their spouses are having an affair with with one another, two neighbors strike up a sad acquaintance that soon blossoms into an unrequited affair of their own. Of course, this makes no sense because who would ever cheat on Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung? But that’s not really the point. The point is cigarette smoke and silk dresses. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies,...
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LD59 - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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I don’t think we’re in the standard spine numbers anymore, Toto… Because we’re returning to the Laser Disc collection with this all-timer. Are we doing this in honor of the upcoming release of the second Wicked movie? No. No we are not. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000).
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79 - W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films (1915-1933)
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The most accurate description of this episode is that we review 6 Short Films starring W.C. Fields. The idea is that he’s arrogant jerk. That’s pretty much it. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . 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 Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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982 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
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In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. 3 months before this, in an act of desperate love, a sex-reassignment surgery was planned and subsequently botched. And a punk/drag icon was born. John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig croons, screams, and stage-banters her way into our hearts. Don't let the fact that this is TECHNICALLY a rock opera (ugh) dissuade you from putting on your foam wig and experiencing this all-time indie classic. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server ! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts,...
info_outlineDavid Lynch’s follow-up to one of the most disturbing and lovingly crafted pieces of auteur cinema ever made is… an Oscar-bait biopic? Sure: he brazenly assaults Victorian (and maybe even a few modern) sensibilities by frankly visualizing the appearance and living conditions of a young man cast from polite society. And, yeah-yeah, who are the REAL monsters, amiright? But more that this, Lynch taps into is own dark dreamscape, to poke at the less obvious, but deeply felt, horrors of the industrial age.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Albert & Allen Hughes Dead Presidents (1995).