CinePhils

By David Koepsell

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, a... more

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The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.

CinePhils episodes:

July 06, 2023 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.
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58min
June 13, 2023 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.
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1h 4min
May 26, 2023 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.
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1h 2min
May 15, 2023 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.
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1h 5min
May 03, 2023 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.
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1h 5min
April 18, 2023 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?
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1h 11min
April 11, 2023 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.
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1h 5min
April 04, 2023 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.
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1h 4min
March 25, 2023 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.
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1h 9min
March 14, 2023 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.
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1h 6min

FAQs about CinePhils:

How many episodes does CinePhils have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.