Quentin Crisp in conversation with Studs Terkel
Discussing the book "How To Go To The Movies" (published by St. Martin Press) with the British actor and author Quentin Crisp.
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Discussing the book "How To Go To The Movies" (published by St. Martin Press) with the British actor and author Quentin Crisp.
Pauline Kael (National Book award winner) discusses contemporary films and her recent publications. Much of the conversation is focused on Stanley Kubrick's work and the role of violence in movies.
Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion. Almost all the characters in Robert Kotlowitz's book, "The Boardwalk" are fictitious with the exception of Teddy, a Jewish, 14-year-old boy, who Kotlowitz explains is Robert Kotlowitz.
Nora Sayre discusses her book "Running time: Films of the Cold War" and how Russian-American relations affected Hollywood and celebrity blacklists.
Film director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader discuss their movie “Taxi Driver,” including interview from 9:04 - 9:49 of Scorsese discussing the character, Johnny Boy, from his film "Mean Streets."
Discussing the movie "Return of the Secaucus seven" with Maggie Renzi and John Sayles.
Discussing the film "Street music" with the director Jenny Bowen.
Twelve-year-old Marie is the topic covered by Jeanne Moreau and the movie, "The Adolescent (L'Adolescente)". The movie, explains Moreau, is about a girl going through puberty and how she deals with liking the same man that her mother is attracted to.
Discussing the 18th International film festival with a panel of jurors: including David Robinson and John Russell Taylor of the London Times, Jay Scott of the Toronto Globe and mail, Albert Johnson of the San Francisco Chronical, William Woolf of the New
Discussing the films "Zorba The Greek", "Sweet Country", "The Artica Line", "Euripedes Trilogy", "The Day The Fish Came Out," and others with director and screenwriter Michael Cacoyannis.
Never having seen a movie herself, the old Hungarian woman who Irme Gyongyossy directed in the film , "A Quite Ordinary Life," was very open to having a film made about her life. Gyongyossy talks about the woman's adventures while on a trip to London.
Garson Kanin discusses his book "Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons, Moviemakers, Frauds, Hopefuls, Great Lovers", published in 1967.