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In the forty-fifth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Dan Bauer to discuss the western that isn't quite a western, Quentin Tarantino's genre bending homage to Sergio Leone, Robert Aldrich, and Enzo G. Castellari that utilizes western tropes and defines his masterpiece Inglourious Basterds.
In the forty-fourth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) and fellow cinephile Jordan Berry to discuss Kim Jee-Woon's unhinged homage to the stylings of the Spaghetti Western with its own Asian flare in The Good, the Bad, and the Weird.
In the forty-third episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of Ellissinema Podcast) and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the idea of legends, history, and the molding of mythology in the hilariously revisionist horror-comedy Bubba Ho-Tep.
In the forty-second episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and cinematographer Josh Carter to discuss John Ford's mature reflection on the implications of violence, toxic masculine nature, and the necessity of law and order in his eulogy to the genre he pioneered, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
In the forty-first episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Ben McGinley to discuss one of the absurd elegies of the Wild West, the irreverent and thoughtful study on individualism in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.
In the fortieth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, including cinematographer Josh Carter, actor/writer Reagan Osborne, and screenwriter David Gutierrez, to discuss Andrew Dominik's reflection on the parallels of how myths create and destroy and their link to our own sense of history in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss John Ford's true cinematic masterpiece about the discomforting genocidal attitudes and racial antagonism that keeps us from mending our historical wounds in The Searchers.
In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa Music) and stunt actor Danny Hernandez (of the BJ Factory) to discuss the wonderful Lee Van Cleef led Spaghetti Western showdown of assumed loyalties and changing law and order in The Big Gundown.
In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by actors Galen Howard and Ben McGinley to discuss an oft overlooked Spaghetti Western, the politically charged Zapata influenced take on revolutionaries of ideals and convenience in A Bullet for the General.
In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss the parallels of personal history and actual history in John Sayles' investigative neo-western noir, Lone Star.
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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,…