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
The Spiciest Curry: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Happy Halloween Kael Your Idolators! For this spooky episode we’re letting our freak flags fly and boogying down with the beloved holiday classic: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We attempt to do justice to the mammoth legacy of this property as...
A Joe Don Baker Halloween Double Feature
Welcome to a world of thrills and chills as we continue to eulogize recently deceased new Hollywood figures with the most terrifying dead celebrity of them all: Joe Don Baker! We discuss two horror-adjacent projects he took on in 1977. The Shad...
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...
