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Posts by Random Acts of Cinema
For whatever reason, ever my time Mike tries to do a W.C. Fields impression it turns into a Cagney impression.
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This week a modern musical classic! It’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch!
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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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This week- Lizzie Borden’s docudrama/dystopian/feminist/way ahead of its time (but at the same time very much of its time) Born in Flames
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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.
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What's up, y'all! @wbxylo.bsky.social gets @meridith.bsky.social and special guest @mikebnoyes.bsky.social to rent softcore porn from the library so he can connect the film to Green Acres and the King of Cartoons!
All this and Linda Blair dating Ricks!
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We look back at the Akira Kurosawa kidnap picture/crime procedural High and Low! And maybe discuss the recent remake a little too.
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Tavernier topples the poisonous heart of European colonialism. Whether our hapless police chief chooses inaction, or succumbing to his own selfish impulses, everything and everyone around him rots due to the fundamental moral corruption of racism. But it’s a comedy.
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This week we discuss the first of many Zatoichi movies! Hell yeah!
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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?” Also, there some pretty great woodworking scenes!
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William Friedkin directs this 2000s political courtroom drama starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson! Join our Patreon to enjoy the latest episode of Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?!?!
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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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Kon Ichikawa’s An Actor’s Revenge! An unexpected surprise for the uninitiated.
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How Kate Got Her Groove Back! It’s David Lean’s Summertime!
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It’s time for another Friedkin Fill-In from our Patreon podcast, Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?!?? In this ep we dive into the 90s erotic thriller… Friedkin style!
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A special treat for everyone this week! Straight from our Patreon pod, Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?!?! In this episode we discuss William Friedkin’s 1990 horror film, The Guardian!
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