FilmCouch is one year old! And what a year it has been. In the course of 2007, we’ve gone from being a little-known movie podcast, to being a Webby-nominated little-known movie podcast.
Without further ado, here is my list of favorite FilmCouch moments of 2007:
FilmCouch #22 - Remakes Paul, Adam and I discuss remakes, both real and imagined. Adam wonders who would fill the cast of Pulp Fiction if it had been made in 1975, and Paul envisions a 1971 version of The Matrix called The Dot-Matrix, a young Robert Redford frees his mind in an Indian sweat-lodge ritual, and must destroy his dot-matrix punch card so he can remove himself from “the system.”
FilmCouch #33 - No End In Sight Charles Ferguson’s methodical investigation of what went wrong in the occupation of Iraq deeply affected Paul and I. There was a lot of hand-wringing, cigarette-smoking, and passionate debating that took place to get this episode made.
FilmCouch #35 - Mumblecore 2007 was a banner year for a small group of no-budget indie filmmakers including the Joe Swanberg, Aaron Katz, and the Duplass Brothers. Ultimately all the buzz, and particularly the label “Mumblecore,” may have done more harm than good. In this episode we sought to cut through the chatter with two simple questions: Are the movies good? If so, why?
FilmCouch #38 - Into the Wild We interviewed Sean Penn about his struggle to turn the non-fiction man vs. nature tale into a movie. Then we compared it to a lost Harrison Ford gem, The Mosquito Coast. The verdict? Ford: 1 Penn: 0.
FilmCouch #39 - The Economy Paul and I discuss Paul Haney’s issue doc, The Price of Sugar, a sobering look at where our sweets come from. And for a look at the opposite end of the have-and-have-not spectrum, we reflect on Oliver Stone’s classic, Wall Street.
