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In the forty-second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss the lyrical and poetic true crime inversion that tackles a generation of detachment, the dangers of personal mythology, and the adolescent divide between impulse and reason that defines the stunning debut of Terrence Malick, Badlands (1973).

In the forty-first episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to break down the perpetual boredom and haunting apathy of the new pre-grunge youth in Tim Hunter's exquisite sociological horror of curdled morality in River's Edge (1986).

In the fortieth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by stunt actor Danny Hernandez and filmmaker Daniel Lopez to discuss the children lost to a societal failure in the 1970s trash infested tenements of Glasgow in Lynne Ramsay's poetic, lyrical, and devastating coming-of-age tale Ratcatcher (1999).

In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriters David Gutierrez and Gio Maldonado to discuss the melancholic ode to the lost small town of America, the inevitability of change, and how some people get left behind in Peter Bogdanovich's deeply moving and thoroughly honest portrait of aging beyond our history, legacy, and myth in The Last Picture Show (1971).

In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and actor Benjamin McGinley to discuss Barry Levinson's loving ode to the "lost generation," their masculine insecurity, and their sanctuary of perpetual irresponsibility in the drastically underseen and greatly underappreciated influential gem Diner (1982).

In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez for a one-on-one discussion of André Téchiné's semi-autobiographical tale of sexual discovery and political conflict amongst teens set against the backdrop of the ending turmoil of the French-Algerian war in the beautifully rendered and extremely tender coming-of-age film Wild Reeds (1994).

In the thirty-sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin to discuss the coming-of-age process as seen through the lens of informed militarism, oppressive parenthood, domineering expectation, and lasting trauma imposed through the sheer force of one man's will in Lewis John Carlino's adapation of Pat Conroy's semi-autobiographical novel The Great Santini (1979).

In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined for one-on-one conversation with script supervisor/editor Katy Baldwin to discuss the effortlessly charming coming-of-age sports drama about class conflict, the generational gap, and the forging of individual identity that defines Peter Yates' honest and joyous celebration of the societal underdog in Breaking Away (1979). 

In the thirty-fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and script supervisor Katy Baldwin to discuss the British Kitchen Sink genre of anger, frustration, and dissatisfaction with the unfairness of systems and the inequitable choices of direction in Tony Richardson's rebellious film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962).

In the thirty-third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by musician Ben Childs and screenwriter August Gummere to discuss the quiet beauty and casual brutality of quotidian tenant farming life at the turn of the century on the cusp of religious, political, and societal upheaval in Ermanno Olmi's exceptionally realized authentic docu-recreation The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978).

In the thirty-second episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the bleak assessment of failed systems and the oppression of hierarchical administration in both school and employment that is the undercurrent of Ken Loach's unconventional coming-of-age friendship between a boy and his falcon in Kes (1969).

In the thirty-first episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by journalist Kerry Harwin and filmmaker Mario Ruiz to discuss the elusive concept of truth as it pertains to the hazy reconstruction of memory and the heightened sensory experience of nostalgia in Taiwanese New Wave filmmaker Hou Hsaio-Hsien's coming-of-age masterwork of quotidian detail and political nuance, The Time to Live, and the Time to Die (1985).

In the thirtieth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, fellow podcaster Ben Thelen, journalist Kerry Harwin, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss a friendship defined by harmful masculinity, divided class, and covert sexuality in a shifting political Mexico in Alfonso Cuarón's riveting road film of discovery and social commentary Y Tu Mamá También (2001). 

In the twenty-ninth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by cinematographer Josh Carter and writer/actor Reagan Osborne to discuss the problematic and endearing aspects of Luc Besson's blend of European pragmatism and Hollywood idealism in the thoughtful, tender, and impactful assassin mentor/protege film Leon: The Professional (1994).

In the twenty-eighth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen and journalist Kerry Harwin to discuss the nostalgic look at the Cold War paranoia of the 1960s and how it fueled a coming-of-age of uncertainty for personal identity, creative entertainment, and a stilted culture in Joe Dante's ode to the power of movies, Matinee (1993).

In the twenty-seventh episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter Gio Maldonado, writer Reagan Osborne, and filmmaker Jeffrey Keller, to discuss John Singleton's assessment of gentrification, societal neglect, and finding a communal and individual voice in the seminal and groundbreaking black coming-of-age tale of friendship, mortality, and violence that is Boyz N the Hood (1991).

In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by filmmakers Mario Ruiz and Alejandro Etcheagaray to discuss the blend of social realism and inventive surrealism as it pertains to the cycle of brutal survivalism for youth lost in progress in Luis Bunuel's devastating critique of poverty and social inequity that is Los Olvidados (1950).

In the twenty-fifth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages), the halfway mark, Kyle is joined by actor Ben McGinley and musician Ben Childs to discuss the abstract avant-garde experimentation of Francis Ford Coppola as he mines the ideas of mortality, temporality, and nostalgia adapting S.E. Hinton's lesser known teenage melodrama Rumble Fish (1983). 

In the twenty-fourth episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by a female panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, editor Kristi Shimek, and actress Thurlene Williams, to discuss the monstrosity of female puberty, sexuality, and expectation as depicted through the metaphor of lycanthropy in John Fawcett's horror as coming-of-age film Ginger Snaps (2000).

In the twenty-third episode of Season 8 (Coming-of-Ages) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and musician Ben Childs to discuss the incisive outsider perspective of Jerzy Skolimowski's reflection on the decaying final breath of swinging 60s counter culture and its byproduct of psychosexual power politics and societal exploitation in the surrealistic film Deep End (1970).