Kael Your Idols: A New Hollywood Podcast
Kael Your Idols is a film discussion podcast focused on the "New Hollywood" era of American cinema. From the glamorized hippies and paranoid anti-heroes of the 60s and 70s, to the merchandise-driven blockbusters of the early 80s, join hosts Alana Gibson and Sam Ludwig as they dive into this wild period in studio filmmaking!
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Kael Your Idols: A New Hollywood Podcast
Latest Episodes
A Bugger’s Life - The Conversation (1974)
We recorded a conversation about a recorded conversation! Join us for this deep dive into Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal New Hollywood Palme d’Or winner The Conversation. The eulogies continue with this episode celebrating the great Gene Hackma...
Jaglom's Jagfilms
Oh boy did we have a ball with this one! For this ep we dive headfirst into the wild and singular world of Henry Jaglom, a true maverick who eschewed conventional narrative and filmmaking techniques to forge his own version of cinema. We traced...
Four Films by Frederick Wiseman
Our series of New Hollywood elegies continues with no signs of stopping in sight! This episode we present a paen to visionary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, whose stark narratives of life within institutions provided not just education but tr...
Method and Empathy: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
To quote Roger Ebert: movies are emotion machines. And in this episode we discuss a most finely-tuned piece of emotional machinery, 1979’s Oscar juggernaut Kramer vs. Kramer. From its cast full of career best performances to the somewhat unders...
