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In the fifteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisors Katy Baldwin and novelist Samuel Cullado to discuss the purgatorial wandering and spiritual liminality of man experiencing heaven, hell, and earth in Jim Jarmusch's poetic and existential acid western, Dead Man.
In the fourteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by musician Boston Stergis and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Marlon Brando's bloated vanity project of mixed ego and mixed genius in the early revisionist, existential, and borderline Freudian One- Eyed Jacks.
In the thirteenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and screenwriter Tristan Fortier to discuss the racial tensions, societal ramifications, and moral assumptions of characters in the west in Martin Ritt's excellent adaptation on Elmore Leonard's Stagecoach riff, Hombre.
In the twelfth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa Music) to discuss Winchester 73', the first collaboration between the famed partnership of Anthony Mann and James Stewart that paved the way for noirish complexity in the Western genre.
In the eleventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and writer Tristan Fortier to discuss the morally complex characters trapped in a home invasion of frontier circumstance in Andre De Toth's bleak noir western The Day of the Outlaw.
In the tenth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss a proto-spaghetti western from the subversive Robert Aldrich, the down South mercenary for hire oater Vera Cruz
In the ninth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the maddening decent into destructive greed and the privileged mindset of the self-determined American West that lingers in the core spirit of men in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
In the eighth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcast Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and musician Boston Stergis (of Sailor Ripley) to discuss the morally complex portrait of gunfighting fame that cast a shadow over the folklore of the American West and their outlaw heroes in Henry King's The Gunfighter
In the seventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow cinephiles Sarah Gray and Ryan Smith to discuss Samuel Fuller's subversive and feminist western Forty Guns, and all of its innuendo, character driven splendor, and shocking memorable moments.
In the sixth episode of Season 3, Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss Howard Hawk's foundational and seminal western about family, legacy, empire, and the competing philosophies emerging in the west that is Red River
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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,…