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CinePhils

David Koepsell

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 31

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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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Visual Arts
05/05/2025
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CinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhils

Season 2 · Episode 1

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 • Duration 47:51

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

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

Monday, May 20, 2024 • Duration 55:45

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

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

Thursday, February 22, 2024 • Duration 01:13:42

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

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

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 • Duration 01:09:02

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.

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

Thursday, November 23, 2023 • Duration 01:11:37

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.

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

Monday, October 30, 2023 • Duration 01:14:34

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.

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

Friday, October 6, 2023 • Duration 01:16:01

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.

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

Friday, September 22, 2023 • Duration 01:26:11

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.

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

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 • Duration 01:07:38

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

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

Friday, August 11, 2023 • Duration 01:04:05

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

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