711 - A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
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Did you know that the Beatles also made movies?!? Yeah, so did we. *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 Andrew Haigh 45 Years (2015).
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1202 - Lone Star (1996)
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This is not your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate’s neo-noir western. This is John Sayle’s interrogating generational legacies of racism, corruption, compromise, and passion in a south Texas border town. *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 Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night (1964).
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1197 - The Young Master (1980)
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Come listen to two woodworkers talk about this one guy who specializes in wooden bench-style kung fu. Oh, and Jackie Chan is in it also. I guess he directs it too. But let’s get back to this bench… *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 John Sayle’s Lone Star (1996).
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592 - Underworld (1927)
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“Once a lawyer, always a drunkard, and now looking like 2010s David Bowie.” So says newly-minted gangster “Rolls Royce” Wensel describing himself to the POSSIBLY love of his life, the daring thief “Bull” Weed. And it turns out that this, the first American gangster movie (yay!), was also a love triangle (boo!). *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 Jackie Chan’s The Young Master...
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1306 - A Weekend In The Country (1996)
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A classic Bergman film. Well, a classic Martin Bergman film. About Temecula. Where your favorite podcast hosts first met. Anyway… two neurotic New Yorkers - with ulterior motives - take on a couple of quick gigs in the wine country of (southern) California. Perhaps romance is in the air for this strangely legit cast? *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 Josef von Sternberg’s...
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1230 - Not A Pretty Picture (1975)
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Content warning: This episode addresses a film that explicitly addresses issues related to and depicts the actions of violent sexual assault. Director Martha Coolidge blends drama and documentary in an unflinching consideration of her rape as a younger woman. Ostensibly a dramatic recreation of the events surrounding and during the assault, she breaks through the dramatic wall to discuss the project and personal recollections of herself an the actors in this daring and groundbreaking film. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . ...
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1282 - The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
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Who’s ready for an anthology movie about mostly Americans in France writing about mostly not Americans in France for an imagined audience of mostly Americans in America? And sometimes everyone speaks French. But mostly they don’t. Wes Anderson works with his ever-growing company of highest-profile players to construct this triptych of art and insanity, love and revolution, and food and crime. And a deep admiration for the talents and obsessions of midcentury American magazine writers. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at...
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23 - Robocop (1987)
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Dead or alive, you’re listening to me. Paul Verhoeven somehow achieves both badass copaganda action movie and cutting satire of American violence, consumerism, corporate greed, and bad TV. *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 Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021).
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268 - Youth of the Beast (1963)
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Seijun Suzuki dreams up yet another ever-so-slightly-surreal Yakuza picture. Thank god. *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 Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop (1987).
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1186 - The Tall T (1957)
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That Pat Brennan… what a man! Come listen to us face an ethical quandary when we stumble upon a real treasure of a western, that is still undeniably a 1950s western. What am I talking about? Let’s just say that it can be summed up in two words: Henry Silva. *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 Seijun Suzuki’s Youth of the Beast (1963).
info_outlineWe 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 here!
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956).