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In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and musician Ben Childs to discuss the riveting tableux of a complex city populace and a bureaucratic transport system held hostage in the gripping heist masterpiece that is Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974).
In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the Ghosts Podcast) and musician Ben Childs to discuss the coded innuendo and systemic criminality in the world of principled thieves, blue collar mobsters, and self-preserving stool pigeons that makes up the underworld of Peter Yates' The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973).
In the twenty-third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and musician Ben Childs to the lighthearted string of perpetual capers and eccentric losers chasing down greatness in Peter Yates' jubilant farce The Hot Rock (1972).
In the twenty-second episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and writer August Gummere to discuss the meticulous precision of professionals and the faulty weaknesses of man that undercuts the planning in the thrilling yet subdued Peter Yates heist film Robbery (1967).
In the twenty-first episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, journalist Kerry Harwin, fellow podcaster Michael Willer, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss the melancholic study of isolation, detachment, and code of the existential gangster in Jean-Pierre Melville's final opus Le Cercle Rouge (1970).
In the twentieth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, actor Ben McGinley, editor Kristi Shimek, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss Peter Collinson's audacious and insane heist farce mocking British nationalism and criminal immaturity in The Italian Job (1969).
In the nineteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the thrilling World War II French Resistance actioner about the heist of cultural heritage and the lives it takes to save it in John Frankenheimer’s The Train (1964).
In the eighteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the effortlessly stylish and suave technique that represents the battle of the sexes and the minds in Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
In the seventeenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the cinema formalism of Jean-Luc Godard and how it applies to a cultural critique of nostalgia and B-movie identities in Band of Outsiders (1964).
In the sixteenth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Robert Rossen's bleak study on the monied corruption of skill and competition in the world of pool in The Hustler (1961).
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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,…