Nicolas Cage has been on a run of making several movies a year for decades now, and Sympathy for the Devil is one of his latest experiments, a pulpy chamber piece road trip mystery suspense film co-starring Joel Kinnaman. We sit down the film’s director Yuval Adler (who also happened to get his PhD inContinue reading “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (2023)”
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DOGVILLE (2003)
Today we explore the dark recesses of the human soul with Agnes Callard (Chicago). We discuss von Trier’s minimalist staging, the movie’s parable, the duality of human nature, the lies we tell ourselves and others, the film’s political angle, and the role of anger in response to true evil. All I see is a beautifulContinue reading “DOGVILLE (2003)”
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
We are joined by Kieran Setiya (MIT) to discuss what makes life worth living, what’s lost in an infinite time loop, and to what extent flourishing within such a loop is possible. Along the way, we explore grief, the midlife crisis, atelic actions, the Buddhist concept of Saṃsāra, Kierkegaard, female agency in a world dominatedContinue reading “GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)”
CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
The two cows are joined by friend Vishal Dave to visit humanity in its final days in Children of Men, a movie that seems in retrospect sadly prescient for our current times. What would knowledge of the imminent end of humanity mean for the final generation of humans and how might it affect what mattersContinue reading “CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)”
Cows in the Field 