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I Know Movies and You Don't w/ Kyle Bruehl

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A film history and theory podcast that delves deep into a variety of favorites and elusive gems one specific genre at a time. Join the journey and together we can learn about film, auteurs, genre, and the general art of cinema better. The title is facetious, calm down. New Episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.

Author

Kyle

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Podcast website

www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

May 28, 2026

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Episodes

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Legend (Episode 36) 11.11.2022

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss Ridley Scott's immersion into the existential balance between innocence and darkness turning the traditional fairy tale into a deeper abstraction and subversion in Legend (1985).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Episode 35) 09.11.2022

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, musician Ben Childs, screenwriter August Gummere, and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry, to discuss Terry Gilliam's wondrous epic about the extravagant exploits, stories, and lies of the fabled eponymous nobleman in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Highlander (Episode 34) 07.11.2022

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the high-octane, music video style and convoluted weaving of time with original world-building mythology that defines Russell Mulcahy's cult sensation, Highlander (1986)

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The NeverEnding Story (Episode 33) 04.11.2022

In the thirty-third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, novelist Samuel Cullado, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the lessons of grief, the discovery of identity, and the importance of the imagination in the Wolfgang Petersen adaptation of Michael Ende's novel The NeverEnding Story (1984) 

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Company of Wolves (Episode 32) 02.11.2022

In the thirty-second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and stunt coordinator/horror aficionado Danny Hernandez to discuss the "chinese box structure" and coming-of-age sexuality that encompasses the feminist subversion of traditional fable in Neil Jordan's adaptation of Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves (1984).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Dragonslayer (Episode 31) 31.10.2022

In the thirty-first episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Derek Paranay and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann to discuss the mixed bag of impressive special effects and a typical hero's journey narrative that makes up Matthew Robbins' look at dark ages magic, religion, and superstition in Dragonslayer (1981).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Excalibur (Episode 30) 28.10.2022

In the thirtieth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss the insane grandeur and mind boggling ambition of John Boorman's sensory and grimy immersion into pure Arthurian legend that defines his epic Excalibur (1981).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Tin Drum (Episode 29) 26.10.2022

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the comical and magical realism of a boy in perpetual arrested development amid the cruelty, barbarism, and dehumanization of Naziism in Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of Günter Grass' novel The Tin Drum (1979).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Last Wave (Episode 28) 24.10.2022

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the haunting Lovecraftian horror of the dreamscape between the phenomenal colonial reality and the noumenal Aboriginal spiritualism in Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Jabberwocky (Episode 27) 21.10.2022

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by stunt coordinator Danny Hernandez and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the dedication to nonsense and absurdism as it relates to the regressive Dark Ages in the very loose yet inspired adaptation of Lewis Carroll in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (1977).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - O Lucky Man! (Episode 26) 19.10.2022

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the surreal depiction of capitalist hierarchy and the fantasy of hard work equating success in the pseudo-musical satire of Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Holy Mountain (Episode 25) 17.10.2022

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastic Realities) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss and dissect the various religious, political, and surrealist symbolism built into the syncronistic fabric of Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious and psychedelic oddysey in The Holy Mountain (1973).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Celine and Julie Go Boating (Episode 24) 14.10.2022

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stunt coordinator Danny Hernandez to attempt deciphering the anarchic arthouse gem that embodies a tale of female comraderie, creative autonomy, and collaborative aims in Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Spirit of the Beehive (Episode 23) 12.10.2022

In the twenty-third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the beautifully reflective and atmospherically quiet depiction of the divided family unit in Spain under fascist Franco rule in Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive (1973).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Episode 22) 10.10.2022

In the twenty-second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor/script supervisor Katy Baldwin and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the Czech New Wave non-linear fairy tale from Jaromil Jireš, the folk dreamscape of emerging womanhood that is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Swimmer (Episode 21) 07.10.2022

In the twenty-first episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephiles/screenwriters David Gutierrez and Mario Ruiz to discuss the psychological transposing of masculinity in panic that defines Frank Perry's horror surrealist adaptation of John Cheever's short story The Swimmer (1968).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Saragossa Manuscript (Episode 20) 05.10.2022

In the twentieth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez to discuss the importance of storytelling digression, the exaggerated fear of the other, and the elliptical absurdity of life in the Polish masterwork from Wojciech Jerzy Haus, The Saragossa Manuscript (1965).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Billy Liar (Episode 19) 03.10.2022

In the nineteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the inversion of the kitchen sink realism drama in the flights of fancy and delusions of grandeur in the arrested development protagonist of John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Servant (Episode 18) 30.09.2022

In the eighteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the implied homoeroticism and the mirror self in the social psychological battleground between servant and master that is Joseph Losey's kitchen sink realism drama The Servant (1963).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The Exterminating Angel (Episode 17) 28.09.2022

In the seventeenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, novelist Samuel Cullado, fellow cinephile Jordan Berry, and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray, to discuss Luis Buñuel's embittered and nasty dissection on the illusion of upper class mores and stature in the famous surrealist work The Exterminating Angel (1962).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Episode 16) 26.09.2022

In the sixteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Derek Paranay and filmmaker Jordan Berry to discuss the "million dollar hand" creations of stop-motion creatures and set-pieces from the brilliant Ray Harryhausen that gave vibrant texture and life to the traditional hero's journey that makes up The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Black Orpheus (Episode 15) 23.09.2022

In the fifteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the blend of dance, music, and tragedy that combines celebratory romanticism and societal tragedy in the jubilant yet wary depiction of Favela life in Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (1959).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - A Kid for Two Farthings (Episode 14) 21.09.2022

In the fourteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and writer August Gummere to discuss the vibrantly colorful and community driven immersion into the Jewish emigre center of Post-War London that dabbles in the preservation of fantasy in Carol Reed's lesser known A Kid for Two Farthings (1955).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Ordet (Episode 13) 19.09.2022

In the thirteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and cinematographer Ryan Alva to discuss the quotidian rhythms and slice of life tragedies within a farming family going through a crisis of faith in Carl Theodor Dreyer's late career masterpiece Ordet (1955).

Season 7: Fantastical Realities - Miracle in Milan (Episode 12) 16.09.2022

In the twelfth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss Vittorio De Sica's delightful and heart warming indictment of society gone wrong in the fantastical inversion of neo-realist tragedy in Miracle in Milan (1951).

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