Random Acts of Cinema

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 is a arts podcast hosted by Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson, with 374 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson hosts Random Acts of Cinema, a arts show with 374 episodes published.

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  Episode #370

  614 - Summer with Monika (1953)

  Aug 17, 20261h 12mS8

  Ah, young summer love. So passionate. So naive. Never to last. Never has this been more poignantly explored than in Ingmar Bergman's "Summer" films. And perhaps this story of Monika and Harry running away from their lives to beaches and islands of Sweden does this at his most direct. *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 Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey (1965).

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  Episode #369

  288 - F is for Fake (1973)

  Aug 11, 20261h 42mS8

  Imagine a movie directed/edited/starring Orson Welles as himself commenting on the making of this very movie while he wears big hats and capes, smokes giant cigars, DOMINATES heaping plates of raw oysters, does some magic tricks, constantly shows off his gorgeous girlfriend, and monologues about the nature of art and immortality… and all the while the whole movie is about someone else. Sounds fake, right? *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 Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953).

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  Episode #368

  The 8th Annual Rando Awards

  Aug 3, 20261h 56mS7

  We've scoured our movies this season from Lost in America (1985) to Playtime (1967) and everything in between for the best of the best. That's right: it's time again to find out who will go home with the coveted Randy and who will forever suffer the indignity of being snubbed by the hosts of Random Acts of Cinema. *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 Orson Welles' F is for Fake (1973).

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  Episode #367

  112 - Playtime (1967)

  Jul 25, 20261h 25mS7

  It's time again for the whimsical wanderings of a man lost in the urban sea of late 1960s Paris. Kind of a modern Odyssey if you think about it… Jacques Tati returns to the podcast, directing himself once more as Monsieur Heulot. *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! Please join us next week for the 8th Annual Rando Awards!

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  Episode #366

  239 - The Lower Depths (1936) and The Lower Depths (1957)

  Jul 20, 20261h 27mS7

  It's a podcast double doozer! Renoir and Kurosawa both adapt the same play, over 2 decades apart. Mifune and Gabin play the same roll. One is set in the source's original Russia and the other in Edo-period Japan. Both are about hope and despair at the limit of human poverty. Is there more to this comparison than… the comparison? *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 Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967).

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