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

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin to discuss the coming-of-age process as seen through the lens of informed militarism, oppressive parenthood, domineering expectation, and lasting trauma imposed through the sheer force of one man's will in Lewis John Carlino's adapation of Pat C...

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined for one-on-one conversation with script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin to discuss the effortlessly charming coming-of-age sports drama about class conflict, the generational gap, and the forging of individual identity that defines Peter Yates' honest and joyous celebration of the societal underdog in Breaking Away (1979)....

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the British Kitchen Sink genre of anger, frustration, and dissatisfaction with the unfairness of systems and the inequitable choices of direction in Tony Richardson's rebellious film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962).

In the thirty-third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the quiet beauty and casual brutality of quotidian tenant farming life at the turn of the century on the cusp of religious, political, and societal upheaval in Ermanno Olmi's exceptionally realized authentic docu-recreation The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the bleak assessment of failed systems and the oppression of hierarchical administration in both school and employment that is the undercurrent of Ken Loach's unconventional coming-of-age friendship between a boy and his falcon in Kes (1969).

In the thirty-first episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by journalist Kerry Harwin and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the elusive concept of truth as it pertains to the hazy reconstruction of memory and the heightened sensory experience of nostalgia in Taiwanese New Wave filmmaker Hou Hsaio-Hsien's coming-of-age masterwork of quotidian detail and political nuance, The Time to...

In the thirtieth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, journalist Kerry Harwin, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss a friendship defined by harmful masculinity, divided class, and covert sexuality in a shifting political Mexico in Alfonso Cuarón's riveting road film of discovery and social commentary Y Tu Mamá También (20...

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and writer/actor Reagan Osborne to discuss the problematic and endearing aspects of Luc Besson's blend of European pragmatism and Hollywood idealism in the thoughtful, tender, and impactful assassin mentor/protege film Leon: The Professional (1994).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the nostalgic look at the Cold War paranoia of the 1960s and how it fueled a coming-of-age of uncertainty for personal identity, creative entertainment, and a stilted culture in Joe Dante's ode to the power of movies, Matinee (1993).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, writer Reagan Osborne, and filmmaker Jeffrey Keller, to discuss John Singleton's assessment of gentrification, societal neglect, and finding a communal and individual voice in the seminal and groundbreaking black coming-of-age tale of friendship, mortality, and violence...

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by filmmakers Mario Ruiz and Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the blend of social realism and inventive surrealism as it pertains to the cycle of brutal survivalism for youth lost in progress in Luis Bunuel's devastating critique of poverty and social inequity that is Los Olvidados (1950).

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages), the halfway mark, Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and musician Ben Childs to discuss the abstract avant-garde experimentation of Francis Ford Coppola as he mines the ideas of mortality, temporality, and nostalgia adapting S.E. Hinton's lesser known teenage melodrama Rumble Fish (1983). 

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a female panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, editor Kristi Shimek, and actress Thurlene Williams, to discuss the monstrosity of female puberty, sexuality, and expectation as depicted through the metaphor of lycanthropy in John Fawcett's horror as coming-of-age film Ginger Snaps (2000).

In the twenty-third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and musician Ben Childs to discuss the incisive outsider perspective of Jerzy Skolimowski's reflection on the decaying final breath of swinging 60s counter culture and its byproduct of psychosexual power politics and societal exploitation in the surrealistic film Deep End (1970). 

In the twenty-second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss Milos Forman's early Czech New Wave masterwork about the self-discovery of the individual juxtaposed against the absurd socialist central planning of the collective in the wonderfully elusive tragicomedy coming-of-age film Loves of a Blonde (1965).

In the twenty-first episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by actress Thurlene Williams and novelist Reagan Osborne to discuss the enigmatic and inarticulable qualities of perception, imagination, and experience trapped in the structured barriers of American suburbia that define Sofia Coppola's incisive and empathetic look at the mundanity of the adolescent experience and the hol...

In the twentieth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the radically experimental Czech New Wave filmmaker Věra Chytilová and her anarchic political confrontation against Soviet censorship, scarcity, and oppression in the unconventional feminist hang out film Daisies (1966).

In the nineteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss Elia Kazan's first foray into filmmaking and assessing the complexities of the American project by adapting Betty Smith's coming-of-age novel of individual dreams, a developing city, and country in fluctuation that is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945).

In the eighteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and actor Benjamin McGinley to discuss the peripheral melancholy that pervades the wistful nostalgia of George Lucas' hazy memory of Modesto and America in 1962 right before the world changed in the foundational hangout film American Graffiti (1973).

In the seventeenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and actor Dan Bauer to discuss the thin line between adolescence and adulthood where youthful fantasy and invulnerability clash against the impending responsibilities and realizations of growing up in Amy Heckerling's tender and humorous mosaic of the high school experience Fast Times at Ridgemont H...

In the sixteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann and filmmaker Jeff Keller to discuss Michael Schultz's high school dramedy about the promise of youth and the melancholic exposure to reality that gave voice and representation to the black coming-of-age experience in all its honesty, dynamism, and humanism entitled Cooley High (1975).

In the fifteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by duel hosts of Spro & Lee Take on the Academy to tackle the melancholic nostalgia of memory, trauma, and experience as it pertains to the vibrant yet fading foundational friendships of youth in Rob Reiner's delicate and nuanced adaptation of Stephen King in the seminal coming-of-age film Stand by Me (1986).

In the fourteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to discuss the black tragicomic adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about childhood neglect, parental malfeasance, and societal hypocrisy in Neil Jordan's confrontational and surrealist The Butcher Boy (1997).

In the thirteenth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss societal inequality and the brutality of survival that defines David Lean's stripped down and lyrically imagined adaptation of the seminal coming-of-age Dickensian novel Oliver Twist (1948). 

In the twelfth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, cinematographer Josh Carter, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the endearing lens of memory and nostalgia as it tells a touching tale of mentorship, home, and identity wrapped in an ode to the power of cinema in  Giuseppe Tornatore's foreign film sensation Cinema Paradiso (1988).