Random Acts of Cinema

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982 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Season 7 · Episode 330

Monday, October 27, 2025 • Duration 01:03:40

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.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing W.C. Fields - 6 Short Films (1933).

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667 - Seconds (1966)

Monday, October 20, 2025 • Duration 01:22:59

Frankenhiemer returns to podcast with a… weird art film? Sort of. All of the paranoia, threatened masculinity, mid-century gloss, and decaying middle-class domesticity of The Manchurian Candidate remain, but the potboiler-thriller plot is replaced with… vibes.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001).

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1277 - Born In Flames (1983)

Season 7 · Episode 328

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 • Duration 01:17:53

Director Lizzie Borden dares to imagine a world in which promised egalitarian reform is achieved, just not for women. Women from all backgrounds, walks of life, and lifestyles debate, struggle, and eventually unite to fight against male repression in this documentary-style dystopian action/drama. If that doesn't sell this movie to you, then how about this? 1980s, queer, punk, radical feminist, New York City.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966).

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651 - Badlands (1973)

Season 7 · Episode 327

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 01:12:01

Our odd run of road movies continues with a classic from an American master. Terrence Mallick turns the couple-on-a-crime-spree sub genre into a deadpan fairy-tale with stirring visuals, iconic performances, and a meditative tone.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983).

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41 - Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Season 7 · Episode 326

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Duration 01:22:46

We return to Monte Hellman's examination of American masculinity with a James Taylor and Dennis Wilson-starring road movie. Two nearly silent racers ramble across the American southwest, acquiring a disreputable father-figure, a notably underage girl, and a supporting cast of American weirdos. Vroom.

Also join us for a bonus follow-up discussion now that Mike has finally watched Highest To Lowest (2025)!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973).

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24 - High and Low (1963)

Season 7 · Episode 325

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 • Duration 01:27:20

In honor of Spike Lee's… interesting… new adaptation, we return to the surprisingly satisfying sub genre of Akira-Kurosawa-crime-thriller with his two-movies-for-the-price-of-one kidnapping procedural.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971).

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106 - Coup de Torchon (1981)

Season 7 · Episode 324

Monday, September 15, 2025 • Duration 01:14:37

Bertrand Tavernier builds a lushly realized foundation around which to topple the poisonous heart of European colonialism. Whether our hapless police chief chooses deliberate inaction, working towards everyone's best interests, or succumbing to his own selfish impulses, everything and everyone around him rots due to the fundamental moral corruption of racism. But, like, its a comedy.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (1963).

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679 - The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

Season 7 · Episode 323

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 • Duration 01:12:20

Edo Japan. A town swarming with warring yakuza. And one detached, unstoppable blind swordsman caught in the middle. And Tate. Don't forget about Tate. The legend of Tate starts here.

Kenji Misumi brings Zatoichi to the screen, with beautiful staging, and soapy twists and turns. Long-time guest Max joins us to put it all into a historical perspective and to make an exciting podcast announcement!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon (1981).

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1115 - Adoption (1975)

Season 7 · Episode 322

Monday, September 1, 2025 • Duration 01:10:02

Hungarian director Marta Meszaros adds unprecedented depth, humanity, and a whole other meaning to the question asked in countless groan-worthy bumper stickers: "Who adopted who?"

A lonely middle-aged widow is picked by a teenage girl from a nearby state-run home for children as a kindred spirit and unlikely ally. Identities like mother, daughter, friend, sister, confident, and advocate are intentionally and unintentionally tried on for size as both struggle against the constrictive demands of the well-meaning, but institutionally-bound men in their lives.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Kinjji Misumi's The Tale of Zatoichi (1962).

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1204 - Trainspotting (1996)

Season 7 · Episode 321

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 • Duration 01:29:16

Poverty. Betrayal. Heroin. Death. But, like in a really funny and clever sort of way that's just a real pleasure to watch. Spend some time with some of your best Scottish friends! Director Danny Boyle fully inhabits, then redefines 90s cinema, in this groundbreaking international phenomenon.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Marta Meszaros' Adoption (1975).

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