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CinePhils

David Koepsell

31 episodes

2 weeks ago

Overworked and underemployed philosophers and cinephiles, Rob and David, discuss movies and philosophy. Part movie club, part philosophy seminar, we're really just in it to watch the flicks we love, and hope you’ll join in. Cover art is original work from Amelia Koepsell

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Overworked and underemployed philosophers and cinephiles, Rob and David, discuss movies and philosophy. Part movie club, part philosophy seminar, we're really just in it to watch the flicks we love, and hope you’ll join in. Cover art is original work from Amelia Koepsell

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Episodes (20/31)

CinePhils

CinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhils

Existential themes in the Aliens films, questions of humanity, isolation, the Other, AIs and their natures, playing God, and meeting our gods. Special guest segment with Dr. Kim Baltzer-Jaray on gender in the Alien films

1 year ago

47 minutes 51 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 29: Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, “goodness is something to be chosen”

Viddying ultraviolence, free will, and behaviorism in the dystopian neoliberal state. And Beethoven, of course.

1 year ago

55 minutes 45 seconds

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Cinephile, Take 28: Kubrick’s The Shining, or “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance”

Madness, obsession, terrible cases of writer’s block, and other things philosophers go through.

1 year ago

1 hour 13 minutes 42 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 27: Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and The Life Aquatic, or “Viewmaster”

Actually it is take 27, we’ve been away for too long. Nostalgia, simplicity, yearning, and a bit of humanity is the cure for cynicism. Also, well constructed cinematic, symmetrical camera work and such.

1 year ago

1 hour 9 minutes 2 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 26: Paul T. Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love, or “that’s that, mattress man!”

Rob and David hold forth on lyrical images, Sandler seriously acting, virtues of love in the spectrum, non-musical musicals, pudding and air miles, and having a love in your life that makes one stronger than anything you can imagine.

2 years ago

1 hour 11 minutes 37 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 25: Scorsese’s After Hours, or “I’m just a word processor, for Christ’s sake!”

David and Rob discuss Scorsese’s hangups on women, fire, and dangerous things. Griffin Dunne’s problems selling his freak outs, alternate worlds when the bars close, Henry Miller and the problem with men in the 80s.

2 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes 34 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 24: Ford’s “The Searchers” and Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” epic films of hideous men

John Wayne vs. Robert DeNiro, on being awful and not knowing it, beautiful vistas, claustrophobic spaces, New York, incels, and the desaturated color of blood.

2 years ago

1 hour 16 minutes 1 second

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CinePhils, Take 23: Alex Cox’s Walker and Highway Patrolman, or “¿por qué hablamos tanto tiempo?”

Rob and I forget the time and have a long, wide-ranging discussion of two Alex Cox films, one of which ended his Hollywood career, and the other of which is a great Mexican film albeit filmed by a Brit. Politics, ethics, cops, colonialism, and of course some philosophy too.

2 years ago

1 hour 26 minutes 11 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 22: Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers and Burn! Or, “Brando’s got what plants crave!”

David and Rob discuss Colonialism, propaganda, Italian realism, and cinema verité. A bit of philosophy too.

2 years ago

1 hour 7 minutes 38 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 21: Lumet’s 12 Angry Men and Serpico, or (the “Cursed Episode”)

Rob and David discuss legal epistemology, post-truth, Justice, and the unbearable whining of whistleblowers, all while surviving internet outages, failures to record, etc.

2 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 5 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 20: Kurosawa’s High and Low, or “Kingo Gondo mondo loco.”

The social geography of class, police procedurals, and the cinematography of bottle episodes, inter alia.

2 years ago

57 minutes 35 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 19: Yojimbo and Fistful of Dollars, or “plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery

Wherein Rob and David consider lone wolves, moral ambiguity, intellectual property, and Japanese westerns.

2 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes 11 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 18: le Samourai, by Jean-Pierre Melville or “essentiellement le modèle de Ghost Dog”

Rob and David consider fedoras, trench coats, and various cinematic tropes.

2 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 8 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 17: Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes, or “acoustic resonance”

Samurais, bushido, caffeine, nicotine, Roshomon, Mahler, and a what we have here is a failure to communicate. Pretty much all of it here in one episode.

2 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 26 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 16: Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels and Chungking Express, or “pineapple, anyone?”

David and Rob ruminate about Hong Kong pre-turnover, love, grunge, cops, assassins, expired pineapples, and nostalgia for things one never had.

2 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 5 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 15: Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, or “Listen, kid. We’re all in this together.”

David and Rob consider ducts, dream states, corporate fascism, and the liberating power of imagination. Did we mention ducts?

2 years ago

1 hour 10 minutes 2 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 14: Tarkovsky’s Stalker, or “Rob and David get in the Zone”

Starkly different views on Stalker from our two hosts who muse about the metaphysics of The Zone, the Soviet state and its moodiness, and visceral responses to movies.

2 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 13: John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness, or “Reality isn’t what it used to be”

Lovecraftian horror, elder gods, ancient ones, and the metaphysics of fiction are among our topics. We also surmise that the Einstein-Rosenberg bridge is covered and wooden, and Stephen King is rightfully lambasted.

2 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes 40 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 12: Wim Wenders’ Until the End of The World, or “I still love you, broken ladder”

Rob and David riff on road movies, cosmopolitanism, the dangers of video and cheap images, and U2.

2 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes 47 seconds

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CinePhils, Take 11: Ken Russell's Altered States, or "Monsieur, don't try to be funny with me. He is your monkey, therefore it is your money."

David and Rob take a trip into hyperspace, agree on William Hurt's carrying the film, explore the nature of reality, evolution, good and bad special effects, and Paddy Chayefsky's dialogue which is not exactly a Platonic ideal.

2 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes 56 seconds

CinePhils

Overworked and underemployed philosophers and cinephiles, Rob and David, discuss movies and philosophy. Part movie club, part philosophy seminar, we're really just in it to watch the flicks we love, and hope you’ll join in. Cover art is original work from Amelia Koepsell