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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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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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,…