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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 #72 - Karina on Cannes, Kevin on steroids

Cheating is fair, steroids are good for you, France loves Mike Tyson and the best films at Cannes weren’t in Cannes

 
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FilmCouch #71 - Indiana Jones and the Death Penalty

Wee haw! Indy’s back! What is it about that man no one can repeat? And a must-see documentary about a chaplain who stood in the death chamber with 95 death row inmates.

 
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FilmCouch #70

Searching for audiences online. We talk to animator Brady Neely (PROFESSOR BROTHERS, BABY CAKES), and Finnish director Timo Vuorensola (STAR WRECK, IRON SKY).

 
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FilmCouch #69 - Summer Movies

The Big Ass Summer Movie Show

 
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FilmCouch #68 - Paranoia

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

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

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 [...]

FilmCouch #66 - Care Bears and Iraq

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

 
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Moving Image Institute: The Deal

Over our five days at the Institute, we kept returning to a series of binary oppositions: print versus online; doing it for the passion versus doing it for the pay; criticism as consumer reporting versus advocacy for artists. With such circular questions, it’s hard to get anywhere, making it easy to lapse into what [...]

FilmCouch #65 Indiewood mashup

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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