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

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 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).