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Random Acts of Cinema676 - I Married a Witch (1942)Briana and Maddy of the Chapter One: Take Two podcast join us this week to discuss director René Clair’s screwball jaunt through the centuries as a mischievous and thoroughly evil witch (Veronica Lake) and her father (Cecil Kellaway) plot to torment the modern-day descendent (Frederick March) of the pilgrim who burned them at the stake. With his political future, public reputation, impending marriage, life, and sanity at risk, can this proto-Bewitched cast a love spell instead?6 Join us next week for the fourth annual Rando Awards ceremony!
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A Podcast For Everyone(I have added too many podcast to my podcast app and they are beginning to) Wear Me Down [w/ Chapter One: Take Two]HELLO! I hope you're jazzed about listening to this here the penultimate episode of season 5! There is a pretty major reveal about the universe in this episode.And to help us get to that reveal, we were joined by Maddy and Bri from "Chapter One: Take Two", a podcast where they read a book and then discuss the film adaptation of that book. They were wonderful.Check them out: https://twitter.com/ch1tk2 https://chapteronetaketwo.buzzsprout.com Briana's creator page: https://www.facebook.com/Briana.McZant Follow us on...
2022-04-141h 14Random Acts of Cinema888 - Stalker (1979) with Chapter One: Take TwoA movie AND the book that it’s based on? What is this, an episode of Random Acts of Cinema or an episode of Chapter One: Take Two, amiright? Well, it’s actually both. This week we’ve teamed up with Briana and Maddy to do what they do with Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s classic literary science fiction masterpiece Roadside Picnic and Andrei Tartovsky’s classic cinematic science fiction masterpiece Stalker. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jack Woods and Dennis Muren’s Equinox (1970).
2021-10-251h 38Random Acts of Cinema761 - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)A historical-psycho-erotic surrealist film exploring themes of womanhood, Christianity, and Freudian-infused takedowns of family and cultural identity? Plus vampires?! Hey Criterion Collection: Get out of my head! Director Jaromil Jireš serves up a whimsically horrifying dreamscape in this seminal Czech New Wave classic. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be reviewing and discussing Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) with Briana and Maddy of the Chapter One: Take Two podcast.
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Chapter One: Take TwoSeason 2 - The review episodeMaddy and Briana take a trip down memory lane to discuss all the beautiful books they have read this past season.
2021-09-141h 29Random Acts of Cinema1034 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) with Briana & Maddy of Chapter One: Take TwoWe are joined this week by the hosts of the podcast Chapter One: Take Two - Briana McZant and Maddy McZant - to look deep into the eyes of Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. This one has it all: portraits of ladies, ladies on fire, portraits of ladies on fire, portraits of ladies that are literally on fire, and even a painting titled Portrait of a Lady on Fire that really isn’t a portrait of a lady on fire. And I’m not just being flip; this movie dives headfirst, with puzzle box precision...
2020-06-151h 29Random Acts of Cinema565 - The Great Dictator (1940) with Kevin Allison of Risk! and The StateThis week we are joined by special-guest Kevin Allison (of Risk! The Podcast and The State) to talk about a powerful and hilarious film: Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. So, you know when fed-up people call fascists on their practices and they respond by saying they aren’t “technically” fascists? So then they are pressured to walk back their language a little bit and the criticism gets all muddied on a point of semantics based on strict political definitions? Like when a leader who clearly would have been pretty cool with Nazi tactics and ideology gets all butt-hu...
2020-06-081h 17Chapter One: Take TwoEp 19 - Shadowhunters: City of Bones (2013)Briana and Maddy discover that they are secretly part of another world filled with demons, angles, and human/demon/angel crossbreeds. In spite of fighting with and killing actual demons, both Maddy and Briana struggle to accept the existence of the demons and their world. Follow the two of them as they discuss the over sexualisation of female protagonists in film and television, the representation of homosexuals in the supernatural world, and farting. Yes, farting.
2020-05-2440 minChapter One: Take TwoEp 18 - Matilda: the book, the movie, the musical.Matilda is a 1996 American family comedy fantasy film co-produced and directed by Danny DeVito from a screenplay written by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. Based on Roald Dahl's 1988 novel of the same name, the film stars Mara Wilson as the title character with DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris in supporting roles. The film centers on a young genius girl named Matilda Wormwood, who develops psychokinetic abilities and uses them to deal with her disreputable family and Agatha Trunchbull, the ruthless, oppressive and tyrannical Principal of Crunchem Hall Elementary School - Wiki.In this episode...
2020-05-0951 minChapter One: Take TwoEp 17 - The Secret Garden (1993)Briana and Maddy are isolated on the Yorkshire Moors when they discover a lost key. Little did they know that it would lead to a Secret Garden. Brought up selfish and overindulged, if you listen closely, you can hear them bickering. But, thanks to a magic chant spoken around a midnight fire to the beat of an ancient dance under the full moon they are able to resolve their differences and grow as people. This week we discuss Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel, The Secret Garden. We watched the 1993 film adaptation starring Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse, a...
2020-04-251h 00Chapter One: Take TwoEp 11 - DoLittle (2020)What to do when you can talk to animals? Go on a voyage of course. On this week's episode Briana and I discuss why films like this are re-made and how Hollywood may better spend their $200 million. This is the first feature film Robert Downey Jr. has done since the end of the Avengers era, interesting choice. We read The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting for this weeks adaptation review. The book was originally published in 1922 and is the second in the Doctor Dolittle series. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chapteronetaketwo/Instagram: h...
2020-03-0741 minChapter One: Take TwoEp 07 - The NeverEnding Story.Join us and Bastian Balthazar Bux as we travel into The Neverending Story. In a way, we are already travelling together in the neverending story of life. On this adventure we discuss fun topics such as how The Neverending Story II has nearly nothing to do with the book, how much Michael Ende hated the first film and why if you haven't read the novel already, you really should. Briana and I enjoyed this book so much!!! It is another classic that, while it was apparently written for children, explores ides like existentialism and how you can lose who...
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