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In the forty-fifth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and filmmaker Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss Apichatpong Weerasethakul's mesmerizing Thai film about death, reincarnation, and the abundant mysteries of the human adventure in the abundantly spiritual Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010).
In the forty-forth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss David Fincher's use of magical realism to reflect on the haunting and melancholic temporality of life in the underrated and oft-misunderstood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
In the forty-third episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, cinematographer Josh Carter, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and director Steve Shimek, to discuss the elaborate ode to storytelling, our relationship to their construction, and whether they are a path for salvation or destruction in Tarsem Singh's The Fall (2006).
In the forty-second episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, musician Ben Childs, actor Dan Bauer, and novelist Alex Buda, to discuss what some consider the seminal spiritual film of all time, the character study about the shedding of post-modern ego and the embrace of charitable fulfillment in Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day (1993).
In the forty-first episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the metaphysical and secular spirituality of Krzysztof Kieślowski's thoughtful and evocative tale of the elusive idea of coincidence, destiny, and fate in the meditative The Double Life of Veronique (1991).
In the fortieth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, and novelist Samuel Cullado, to discuss the modern fairy tale about identity, purpose, and upending societal norms from an unlikely talking pig in Chris Noonan's Babe (1995).
In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, musician Ben Childs, editor Kristi Shimek, and filmmaker Michael Willer, to discuss the weirdly maligned yet enduring spiritual sequel of Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg's ode to imagination and growing up, Hook (1991).
In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the childlike wonder of imagination as it is squandered, stolen, and neglected in the whimsical yet hardened steampunk fantasia that defines Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's The City of Lost Children (1995).
In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and actress Thurlene Williams to discuss the fluidity of gender, societal rules, and the role of autonomy in Sally Potter's sumptuous and cheeky adaptation of Virginia Woolf's provocative feminist rallying cry in Orlando (1992).
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).
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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,…