Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast I Know Movies and You Don't w/ Kyle Bruehl

In the premiere of Season 12: On the Road, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter Katy Baldwin to discuss the heroic stoicism and occasionally problematic historical revisionism of Buster Keaton's silent spectacle epic The General (1926), which translated Southern apologia into a character driven search for validated identity.

In the season finale of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by fellow podcasters Spro & Lee from Spro & Lee Take on the Academy to discuss the divisive and controversial film about toxic masculinity, corporate drone fealty, and the turn to violence as a form of rabid self-denial in David Fincher's assaultive adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's satirically incisive novel, Fight Club (1999).

In the forty-first episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor Ben McGinley to discuss the maximalist style and absurdly earnest tropes of Kathryn Bigelow's dedicated and slick embodiment of the American actioner with its weirdly existential clashing between authoritarian stability and reckless freedom in Point Break (1991).

In the season premiere of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined by script supervisor and editor Katy Baldwin for a one-on-one conversation about the inventive blending of genre, the grounded deadpan comedy towards the supernatural, and the perfect trifecta of personalities that created one of the lasting pop cultural sensations of the 80s in Ivan Reitman's popular cult classic Ghostbusters (1984).

In the season finale of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Katy Baldwin, editor Kristi Shimek, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the contradictions of hedonism, creativity, and expression against the backdrop of impending fascism, prejudice, and hate in the Weimer Republic that is Bob Fosse's audacious meta-musical that served as a parallel commentary for the 70s feeling of disillusionment and lost idealism in the multiple Oscar-winning Cabaret (1972).

In the forty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter Reagan Osborne to discuss the foundational musical classic of abstract choreography, sensational lyricism, and exquisite composition that defined the modernized version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet turned into a commentary about bubbling race antagonism in America in Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's co-directed West Side Story (1961).

In the forty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and musician Ben Childs to discuss the framework of Greek tragedy conceptualized by songwriting duo Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken to comment on the falseness of nostalgia, the desperation of poverty, and the dangers of feeding into societal avarice in Frank Oz's adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

In the forty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and fellow podcaster Sean Ellis to discuss the irreverent cultural commentary on angry parents, societal irresponsibility, and the absurdity of systemic MPAA censorship in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's feature length addition to their vulgar television sensation in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999).

In the forty-sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Katy Baldwin, artist Anna Cullado, and fellow podcaster Claire White, to discuss the gaudy artificiality of Baz Luhrmann's operatic ode to Bohemian ideals, classic love story mythology, and the power of the stage in the madcap stylized musical of musicals that is Moulin Rouge! (2001).

In the forty-fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and actor Dan Bauer to discuss the folk musical poem of unrequited love, intimate collaboration, and the beauty of encouragement in the down-to-earth, low-budget indie musical sensation from John Carney, Once (2007).

In the forty-fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss and dissect the surrealist experimentation of 30s stylization combined with a commentary on the exploitation and commodification of trauma, sadness, and tragedy in Guy Maddin's exquisitely funny and farcical musical The Saddest Music in the World (2003).

In the forty-third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the controversial anti-musical that deconstructs the genre's inherent romanticism towards fantasy, wish fulfillment, and myth as it relates to the American project for workers, mothers, and immigrants in Lars Von Trier's relentlessly bleak Dancer in the Dark (2000).

In the forty-second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Michael Willer and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the raucous punk rock musical sensation that shattered the gender binary and confronted the modern complexity of personal identity before there was official language to do so in John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001).

In the fortieth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the circular irrationality and chaos of an uprising going nowhere in Werner Herzog's bleak yet ironic assessment of rebellion within a closed and corrupt system in Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970).

In the forty-first episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by journalist Kerry Harwin and stand-up comedian JJ Tyson to discuss Mike Leigh's immersion into the sumptuous fantasy and detailed naturalism of Victorian England as it surveys the partnership of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan that turns into a grand collaborative study of company creation in Topsy-Turvy (1999).

In the fortieth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical) Kyle is joined by editor Katy Baldwin and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss the illusive truth of performance and identity as it relates to the glittery, flamboyant, and counter cultural movement of British Glam Rock that is embodied in spirit, essence, and time in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine (1998).

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep it Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Katy Baldwin and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss the Disney renaissance flop that turned into a cult classic about a collective bargaining historical event turned into a wish fulfilling fantasy of dynamic unity in Kenny Ortega's strike musical Newsies (1992).

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the fabulous madcap immersion into the insanely competitive world of ballroom dancing in Baz Luhrmann's directorial debut about creative authenticity and collaborative trust that is Strictly Ballroom (1992).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and artist Anna Cullado to discuss the heightened camp of nostalgia and exaggerated stylization in John Waters' glorious ode to 50s era aesthetic and the prominent deconstruction of the absurd black-and-white morality of its time in the fun and chaotic musical Cry-Baby (1990).

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with editor and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the melancholic loneliness of being stuck in creative stagnation and the hidden resentments the rise to the surface when not confronted in Steve Kloves' engaging character trinity of working class creativity, The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile August Gummere and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the exuberant cult oddity that is Makoto Tezuka's concept album turned into cinematic music videos in the madcap comedy and music industry critique, The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985).

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Mario Ruiz and musician Ben Childs to discuss the eccentric anthropological investigation into the contradictions and tabloids of a small Texas city that becomes a microcosm of the multi-faceted and strange existence of America itself in David Byrne's off-kilter musical True Stories (1986)

In the thirty-third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the openly progressive deconstruction of gender, identity, and sexuality of Blake Edwards' warm and tender ode to the cabaret burlesque outsiders of 1930s Paris in the grand gender bending musical Victor/Victoria (1982).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss a true cult gem that tackles the late 70s/early 80s youth disillusionment, artist commodification, and the corruption of identity that crafted the punk and post-punk ethos in Lou Adler's rock n roll feminist musical Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982). 

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the original cult sensation that centers around the quotidian normalcy and fulfilling community of circus performers that is interrupted by self-doubt, exploitation, and betrayal resulting in a swift and demented form of justice in Tod Browning's sensational horror melodrama Freaks (1932).

In the thirty-first episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter David Gutierrez, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, to discuss the Robert Altman's incisive microcosm of the cult of America as presented in an experimental, improvisational, and painterly depiction of the country music capital of the world that is Nashville (1975).

In the thirtieth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss Martin Scorsese's highly ambitious  deconstruction of the musical in how it crafts an artificial expectation from genre and then clashes with the New Hollywood sensibilities of realism in the uneven yet sensational New York, New York (1977).

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the true oddity and gimmick that is Alan Parker's theatrical debut, a pastiche ode to both the 1930s gangster films and the 1930s musicals that stars children at the center of its implications and violence without any sense of commentary or irony: Bugsy Malone (1976).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 9 (Keep it Musical!) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the onslaught of clashing genre and explosive technical self-assuredness that defined the Star Wars of Bollywood in the grand musical action melodrama of Ramesh Sippy's cultural watershed masterpiece Sholay (1975).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, filmmaker Michael Willer, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss the powerful musical about one man's struggle with the collision of religious tradition against the inevitable fluctuations of change as it parallels the displacement of community, identity, and history in Norman Jewison's adaptation of the great Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof (1971).

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and musician Ben Childs to discuss the cumulatively informed distillation of genre that defines the indulgent onslaught of musical fantasia that is Ken Russell's provocative adaptation of Sandy Wilson's irreverent stage musical The Boy Friend (1971).

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and fellow cinephile Anna Cullado to discuss the raw and unfiltered capturing of the grueling 19-hour album recording for Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking musical Company in D.A. Pennebaker's casual yet immersive documentary Original Cast Album: Company (1970).

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and writer August Gummere to discuss the blend of surrealist whimsy and devastating emotional ruin in the scathing anti-war musical about officer class ineptitude and the savage dehumanized sacrifice of men of World War I in Richard Attenborough's ambitious directorial debut Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).

In the twenty-third episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stand-up musician JJ Tyson to discuss one of the last grand studio musicals that is George Cukor's Best Picture winning musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion about the factions of class and gender in a battle of mentorship molding versus personal identity that is My Fair Lady (1964).

In the twenty-second episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and filmmaker/podcaster Michael Willer to discuss Jacques Demy's nouvelle vague exaggeration of the musical taking it into an artificial wonderland of irony and missed connections in the pure distillation of the genre's hopeful romanticism that is The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter August Gummere to discuss one of the most provocative mosaics of youthful despair and apathy in Larry Clarke's gritty and authentic assessment of a pre-Giuliani New York skating subgroup as they navigate poverty, societal neglect, the AIDs epidemic, and their own worst impulses in Kids (1995).

In the twenty-first episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow film critic Tyler Harlow to discuss the sensational nouvelle vague subversion of the Hollywood musical in Jacques Demy's confrontation of romantic artifice and idealism with the disappointing pragmatism and reality of life in the cathartically heartbreaking The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).

In the twentieth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor/script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen to discuss the phenomenon of Beatlemania, the trapped gilded cage of celebrity, and the fusion of rebellious aesthetic and form with the rebellion of rock n roll in Richard Lester's fascinating and elusive cultural document about The Beatles that is A Hard Day's Night (1964).

In the nineteenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the radical experimentation of form and genre in crafting a musical without music in Jean-Luc Godard's wonderfully chaotic and whimsical A Woman is a Woman (1961).

In the eighteenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter August Gummere and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss Satyajit Ray's Shakespearean level tragedy of pride and vanity set in transitory feudal India where music, culture, and identity fuse together for a commentary on economic transition, music democratization, and the inevitable tides of social change in the exquisite masterwork The Music Room (1958).

In the seventeenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the heightened melodrama of musical that defines the blend of arthouse sensibilities and Bollywood musical popularity of Guru Dutt's earnest political treatise about the divide between art and commerce in the sensational Pyaasa (1957).

In the sixteenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to discuss the riotous and celebratory period piece about the creative spirit, the progress of moral provocation, and the unity of talent collaboration in Jean Renoir's ode to both the bohemian artists of France and the colorful and grand MGM musicals of America in French Cancan (1955).

In the fifteenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer and stand-up comic JJ Tyson to discuss the iconic musical partnership of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly embodied in their last farewell collaboration which reflected on the post-War malaise, the loss of idealism, and how friendships change in the sensational underappreciated musical gem It's Always Fair Weather (1955).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Katy Baldwin, writer Reagan Osborne, and filmmaker Mario Ruiz, to discuss the wondrous and celebratory hillbilly opera fashioned out of the gender politics of the frontier and its conflict with progress in Stanley Donen's beautifully crafted Cinemascope and Best Picture nominated musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the cultural positives and problematic negatives of Otto Preminger's independently financed rendition of Oscar Hammerstein II's adaptation of George Bizet's opera Carmen, the all- black musical Carmen Jones (1954).

In the twelfth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss one of the true blue masterpieces of the MGM golden age of musicals with Vincente Minnelli's ode to collaborative creation and the sensation of pure entertainment in the exquisitely crafted and masterfully performed show revue The Band Wagon (1953).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with cinematographer Ezra Balcha to discuss the surrealist satire on the falsity of the American Dream, the soullessness of corporate cubicle life, and the deconstruction of language in Steven Soderbergh's anarchic and creatively revitalizing Schizopolis (1996).

In the eleventh episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to decipher the strange dreamy musical world of childhood trauma, authoritarian anxiety, and psychological mirroring concocted by Dr. Seuss in the flawed yet mesmerizing original and grand musical production known as The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953).

In the tenth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and stunt actor Danny. Hernandez to discuss the culmination of Busby Berkeley's visionary talents of surrealistic deviations, optimistic aptitude, and choreographic maximalism and how they were utilized to express unity, collaboration, and hope during World War II in The Gang's All Here (1943).

In the ninth episode of Season 9 (Keep It Musical!) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Daniel Lopez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss musical extraordinaire Vincent Minnelli's debut feature film, the archetypal moral fable about the oppressive nature of our forced bifurcated choice between earthly temptation and transcendent spiritualism in the rare all black musical Cabin in the Sky (1943).