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Back to SearchAnti-Protagonist: Wanda (1970)
Episode 19
This week on the ol’ podcast: Barbara Loden’s massively under-seen film Wanda (1970). We held this conversation a few months ago in the wake of the f…
2 years, 2 months ago
Director Spotlight: Three from Hal Ashby
Episode 18
If you want to sing out! Sing out! Kael Your Idols is pleased to bring you another Very Special Episode as we turn our attention and our empathy towa…
2 years, 2 months ago
Transcendent Neo Wave: Taxi Driver (1976)
Episode 17
Welcome to 2024 fellow Kael Your Idolators! For this first episode of the New Year we’re gassed up, got the meter running, and we’re offering you a m…
2 years, 3 months ago
Our top 5 movies of 1973 AND 2023
Episode 16
1973 vs 2023: the match-up of the century! To celebrate the new year we are counting down our top 5 films from these two years in cinema. Which movie…
2 years, 3 months ago
A Final Fan Dance: The Right Stuff (1983)
Episode 15
The pod is taking a slight temporal detour this week and covering The Right Stuff - a film that began its development during New Hollywood and was fi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia for the Recent Past: American Graffiti (1973)
Episode 14
This week Kael Your Idols welcomes filmmaker Levi Butner to discuss George Lucas’s mega-hit American Graffiti. The film is, in a sense, the director’…
2 years, 4 months ago
Magic Hour Meditations: Days of Heaven (1978)
Episode 13
Love! Betrayal! Sunsets! That’s right - Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven gets the Kael Your Idols treatment this week. A Texas farm sets the scene fo…
2 years, 4 months ago
Director Spotlight: 4 Films by Sidney Lumet
Episode 12
This week we have a change of pace for the show. Instead of an episode on a single movie, Elena and Sam turn their focus onto the career of a filmmak…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Times They Are a-Zombie-ing: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Episode 11
In this episode Sam and Elena sink their teeth into one of the most influential films of all time: George Romero’s independently produced Night of th…
2 years, 5 months ago
Satan Goes Mainstream: The Exorcist (1973)
Episode 10
When we found out that the 70s classic The Exorcist was to be the latest victim in Hollywood’s obsession with Legacy Sequels, a terrifying truth beca…
2 years, 6 months ago