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Random Acts of Cinema

Random Acts of Cinema

By: Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson
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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. Art
Episodes
  • 741 - My Winnipeg (2007)
    Feb 18 2026

    We know y'all are some nasty freaks out there who have been waiting a long time for this one to drop. Guy Madden comes back with an irreverently cinematic fake/real/fake documentary about his home town of Winnipeg. It's black and white, it's out of focus, the cuts are fast and many. It's psycho-sexual. It's arty AF. Is he going to vignette any shots? Uh, yeah.

    *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 Sidney Lumet's The Wiz (1978).

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    59 mins
  • 19 - Sock Corridor (1963)
    Feb 10 2026

    Samuel Fuller turns a critical eye on the state of mental health treatment in the United States to, uh… well, not really. Mostly he just uses a stage theater's idea of a mental hospital as a narrative device for exploring three major American anxieties in the 1960s. Want to complain about nukes? Have a patient do a one-man show for a while about how we went insane after building them. And you know what, that's the tame one of the three. For a B-movie about a reporter going undercover in a mental ward to solve a murder, things get wild.

    *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 Guy Maddox's My Winnipeg (12007).

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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • 752 - Vernon, Florida (1981)
    Feb 2 2026

    Documentarian of the ages Errol Morris turns his gentle eye toward the old fellers of a small town in Florida and just sort of lets them do their thing. Talking about gobblers, wigglers, growing sand, ambidexterity, fake (or maybe real) jewels, seeing the perfection of God in nature, and the magical definition of the word "therefore."

    *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 Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963).

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    1 hr and 14 mins
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