FUNNY PAGES Owen Kline Interview

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Movies, Elric, Critics, Arts, Rupertpupkinspeaks, Horror, Cinema, Saur, Visual Arts, Film, Brian, Tv & Film

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

For this special bonus epsiode, Brian speaks to filmmaker and movie fanatic Owen Kline about his debut film FUNNY PAGES which is playing at the New Beverly with FRIENDSHIP on Tuesday, September 16th and Wednesday, September 17th.

Tickets for Tuesday: https://thenewbev.com/program/september-16-friendship-funny-pages/

Tickets for Wednesday: https://thenewbev.com/program/september-17-friendship-funny-pages/

Also - Check out this list of films that inspired the movie (many of which discussed in this interview): https://letterboxd.com/filmlinc/list/animating-funny-pages/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This special bonus episode of Pure Cinema is brought to you by our Patreon and our Patreon supporters.
0:07.8	Thank you to everybody who supports the show over at patreon.com slash purecinema pod.
0:13.2	We appreciate you so much.
0:14.7	If you'd like more content like this, please consider supporting the show over there and enjoy this one-on-one interview.
0:21.7	I've had a lot of time to think, and I made the decision I'm not going to go back to school after winter break.
0:27.2	What?
0:27.8	Ooh, ooh, ain't got no home.
0:31.6	Obviously, you need to hear this.
0:33.6	You're already at a professional level of drawing for what you want to do.
0:43.3	Everything in your portfolio needs to be very clearly coming from who you are. I ain't got home.
0:45.3	All my heroes didn't go to college.
0:47.3	Do you know what you get with the GED? You know what kind of job you would get?
0:50.3	What? Gas station.
0:51.3	I'd love to work in a gas station.
0:53.3	You know, I'm looking at a place in Trenton later.
0:56.0	Whoa.
0:57.0	Trent?
0:58.0	Um, where would I be staying?
1:01.0	Uh, Steven's room.
1:02.0	Hi there.
1:05.0	Hey.
1:06.0	Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
	...

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