Episodios

  • CinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhils

    CinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhils
    Sep 24 2024

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

    CinePhils, Take 29: Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, “goodness is something to be chosen”
    May 20 2024
    Viddying ultraviolence, free will, and behaviorism in the dystopian neoliberal state. And Beethoven, of course.
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    56 m
  • Cinephile, Take 28: Kubrick’s The Shining, or “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance”

    Cinephile, Take 28: Kubrick’s The Shining, or “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance”
    Feb 22 2024
    Madness, obsession, terrible cases of writer’s block, and other things philosophers go through.
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    1 h y 14 m
  • CinePhils, Take 27: Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and The Life Aquatic, or “Viewmaster”

    CinePhils, Take 27: Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and The Life Aquatic, or “Viewmaster”
    Feb 13 2024
    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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    1 h y 9 m
  • CinePhils, Take 26: Paul T. Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love, or “that’s that, mattress man!”

    CinePhils, Take 26: Paul T. Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love, or “that’s that, mattress man!”
    Nov 23 2023
    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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    1 h y 12 m
  • CinePhils, Take 25: Scorsese’s After Hours, or “I’m just a word processor, for Christ’s sake!”

    CinePhils, Take 25: Scorsese’s After Hours, or “I’m just a word processor, for Christ’s sake!”
    Oct 30 2023
    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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    1 h y 15 m
  • CinePhils, Take 24: Ford’s “The Searchers” and Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” epic films of hideous men

    CinePhils, Take 24: Ford’s “The Searchers” and Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” epic films of hideous men
    Oct 6 2023
    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.
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    1 h y 16 m
  • CinePhils, Take 23: Alex Cox’s Walker and Highway Patrolman, or “¿por qué hablamos tanto tiempo?”

    CinePhils, Take 23: Alex Cox’s Walker and Highway Patrolman, or “¿por qué hablamos tanto tiempo?”
    Sep 22 2023
    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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    1 h y 26 m