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

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...

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...

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 Nashvil...

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 Ma...

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 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...

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 tha...

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 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 Cherbour...

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...

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 th...

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 F...

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 Alway...

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...

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).