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Category Archives: FilmCouch

The Film Couch is a weekly show from spout.com, a website where people help other people discover great movies. Featuring the founders and film-lovers from spout.com’s community, they cover film reviews and movie culture.

FilmCouch #69 - Summer Movies

May 9, 2008 – 8:34 am

The Big Ass Summer Movie Show

 
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FilmCouch #68 - Paranoia

May 2, 2008 – 8:55 am

Maybe you don’t feel paranoid, but a couple movies beg to differ as they look into our current culture of paranoia

 
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FilmCouch #67 - Wisdom of Kumar

April 25, 2008 – 11:13 am

Talking to Kumar, watching KUNG FU and finding a wise sage to explain what film is all about

 
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Tribeca 2008: Standard Operating Procedure & Conversation with Errol Morris

April 25, 2008 – 10:00 am

The night before Sony Pictures Classics planned to open Errol Morris’ Abu Ghraib doc Standard Operating Procedure in two theaters the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a screening of the film, followed by a conversation between Morris and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford.
Beat to the festival circuit by over a year by Rory Kennedy’s Ghosts of Abu [...]

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FilmCouch #66 - Care Bears and Iraq

April 18, 2008 – 8:55 am

The Care Bears, Iron Man and Morgan Spurlock are Hollywood’s new political mavericks

 
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FilmCouch #65 Indiewood mashup

April 11, 2008 – 8:55 am

If you’re visiting a theater and tired of the same old movie clichés, conventional wisdom would point you to the independent movie selection. However, a string on indiewood flicks–most recently The Visitor (opening tonight)–are caving in on their own “indie” clichés. Like rogue environmentalists tracking an invasive species in an Appalachian creek bed, we digest [...]

 
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FilmCouch #64

April 4, 2008 – 9:37 am

Is “Iraq fatigue” a disgusting phenomenon or a natural dance between real life and movie life? The new WHOLPHIN quarterly DVD magazine is out and needs to be talked about.

 
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FilmCouch #63

March 28, 2008 – 9:00 am

Documentaries that don’t suck! An interview with AJ Schnack, founder of new doc award the Cinema Eye Honors. Plus an interview with Cinema Eye winning director Jason Kohn of MANDA BALA.

 
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FilmCouch #62

March 21, 2008 – 9:00 am

10,000 BC vs. ONE MILLION YEARS BC: Can 990,000 years of evolution make a better movie? And speaking of better movies, Karina explains why we don’t see good musicals anymore.

 
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FilmCouch #61 - SXSW 2008

March 14, 2008 – 9:05 am

The SXSW 2008 Film Festival wrap up from FilmCouch

 
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