CinePhils

David 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

  1. 24/09/2024

    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

    48 min

  2. 20/05/2024

    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.

    56 min

  3. 22/02/2024

    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.

    1h 14m

  4. 13/02/2024

    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.

    1h 9m

  5. 23/11/2023

    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.

    1h 12m

  6. 30/10/2023

    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.

    1h 15m

  7. 06/10/2023

    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.

    1h 16m

  8. 22/09/2023

    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.

    1h 26m
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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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  • Creator
    David Koepsell
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    31
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © David Koepsell
  • Show Website
    CinePhils