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In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and musician Ben Childs to discuss a forgotten noir gem from Andre De Toth, the mean and unglamorous police procedural that contemplates the usefulness of informant recidivism in Crime Wave (1954).
In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by fellow cinephile Derek Paranay and actor Dan Bauer to discuss the perilous journey of agriculture truckers and the duplicitous city markets that create a corrupt and slanted game in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway
In the thirty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by filmmaker Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and actor Ben McGinley to discuss Martin Scorsese's filtering and subversion of noir paranoia, anxiety, and isolation into the complicated and layered landscape of the New York urban sprawl and the 70s malaise in Taxi Driver.
In the thirty-second episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by writer and singer Reagan Osborne and musician Ben Childs to discuss the fatalism of miscommunication and cultural divide, between rural and urban, black and white, cop and criminal, that defines the subtle and underappreciated neo-noir from Carl Franklin, One False Move.
In the thirty-first episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek (of Next and Zoey's Fantastic Playlist) and podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) to discuss a buried Anthony Mann noir gem, the female centric and uncompromising in tragic fatalism crime thriller Raw Deal.
In the thirtieth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with singer, performer, and film scholar Adam Tunney to discuss one of the pinnacle foundations of the noir genre, Otto Preminger's stylish high-class gatekeeper murder mystery Laura.
In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by streamer Daniel Lopez (of the Corrupt Immoral channel) and cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the use of societal anxiety, paranoia, and existential struggle imbedded in the noir and how it transplanted itself in the post-war hell hole of Japan in Akira Kurosawa's moral parable Drunken Angel.
In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and stunt actor Danny Hernandez to discuss an overlooked neo-noir stunner about down-and-out misfits of society and how when the right variables fall into place amoral tragedy unfolds in James Foley's After Dark, My Sweet.
In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional podcast) to co-host a discussion with guest Samuel Cullado (of the DocuMental podcast) to discuss David Lynch's ode to the dream factory of Hollywood and the lost hopes, integrity, and talent that are used to sacrifice themselves to achieve a semblance of that dream.
In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by composer Austin Howard and fellow cinephile Derek Paranay to discuss Samuel Fuller's tabloid noir of political subterfuge and the thieves code that thrives in an amoral city in Pickup on South Street.
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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,…