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In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss Alejandro Jodorowskys blend of Jewish mysticism, surrealist pop art, and Western iconography in the delirious and challenging acid western El Topo
In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and multi instrumentalist Ben Childs to discuss Paul Thomas Andersons character study on Manifest Destiny ambition and the isolation of self interest and wealth in There Will Be Blood.
In the twenty-third episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) to discuss the last searing and character driven collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart, the King Lear of the Western plains The Man from Laramie.
In the twenty-second episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Sarah Gray and stunt actor Danny Hernandez (of the BJ Factory) to discuss the truly epic in scale and ambitious in subject matter George Stevens credible yet uneven love letter to the state of Texas its people and its uncomfortable complicated history in Giant
In the twenty-first episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by writer Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss western specialist Delmer Dave's inventive character masterpiece, the unflinching cat-and-mouse chamber Western 3:10 to Yuma.
In the twentieth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss the feverish nightmare of interpreting colonial and expansionist philosophy and fears as a literal interpretation of blinded self rightousness and ultimately madness in Robert Aldrich's inventive revisionist western, Ulzana’s Raid
In the nineteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and fellow podcaster Sean Ellis (of Ellisinema podcast) to discuss the philosophical extension of the American Wests Manifest Destiny to the expansionism of the Australian penal colony in John Hillcoat's beautiful, poetic, and brutal outback western, The Proposition.
In the eighteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss the autumnal, wintery anti-western that utilized the genre's tropes of the self-made man and the American idea of self-determination as a cosmic joke in Robert Altmans McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
In the seventeenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with actor Ben McGinley to discuss Monte Hellman's purely existential western about the apocalyptic desolation of the West and our spiraling for futile survival to the whims of nature and man in The Shooting.
In the sixteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by streamer Daniel Lopez and composer Austin Howard to discuss the strange quirkiness of the flamboyant, cartoonish, and off-the-rails eulogy to the Wild West in Tonino Valerii's My Name is Nobody.
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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,…