Woody Allen Interview 1982 Brian Linehan's City Lights

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  • In this interview from 1982, Woody Allen talks about his newest film, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, stars Mia Farrow, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, Tony Maxwell and Jose Ferrer, the camerawork in the film and the music used in the film.
    Woody Allen also discusses Ingmar Bergman, screening the first cut of his films for his sister and a small circle of friends, his first meeting with Gilda Radner, producer Charlie Feldman and writing the film What's New Pussycat?, Warren Beatty, the death of actress Romy Schneider, his 1979 film Manhattan, books written about him, technological advances in film making and the poet and essayist T.S. Eliot.
    From 1974 to 2000, Canada’s Brian Linehan conducted thousands of in-depth interviews with the greatest actors and directors from over 60 years of film history. His programs City Lights and Linehan have not been seen since they first aired and are now available for the first time for licensing. Linehan, a stylishly gifted broadcaster, meticulously did all his own research and that, coupled with his knowledge and passion about film and filmmaking, puts him in a class all by himself.
    With 20,000 hours of music footage spanning 90 years and thousands of hours of in-depth interviews with the 20th century’s icons of Film and Television, Politics, Comedy, Literature, Art, Science, Fashion and Sports, Reelin’ In The Years Productions is now the World’s Premier Source For Footage Of Musical Artists, Entertainers & History Makers.
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    Note: these clips are available on RUclips for producers, directors, researchers and clearance companies for potential use in their projects. Our website on the screen is to protect the footage from being used without our consent and so industry professionals can find us to properly license the footage.
    Brian Linehan, who passed away in 2004, left his entire estate to The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation to provide training, work opportunities and promotion for young actors of exceptional talent. All of the income of his Foundation is donated to not-for-profit institutions for that purpose. In the decade since his death, recipients of the Foundation’s support have included extraordinary young actors affiliated with the Canadian Film Centre, The National Screen Institute of Canada, the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, which, since Brian's passing, has preserved and housed Brian's personal archive and tape library.
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  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 5 лет назад +38

    Brian was absolutely the most interesting and knowledgeable Interviewer

    • @January.
      @January. Год назад +2

      Canadian, of course!

  • @sobojetty
    @sobojetty 8 лет назад +60

    A well-prepared, thoughtful and intelligent interviewer talking with a thoughtful and intelligent guest. A pleasure to view.

    • @phoenixzappa7366
      @phoenixzappa7366 8 лет назад +3

      stop pleasuring yourself!!

    • @shaunpearson7905
      @shaunpearson7905 8 лет назад +10

      +Phoenix Zappa He's a legend. Go away.

    • @ckalteyer8239
      @ckalteyer8239 6 лет назад +7

      Can't wait to see his new movie..such a genius!

    • @GrantTarredus
      @GrantTarredus 3 года назад +4

      Thank you very much for uploading this. I don’t know when or if I’ve ever seen a finer interview with anyone.

  • @TowGunner
    @TowGunner 3 года назад +17

    I still say Manhattan is a masterpiece and his finest film!

    • @markr.devereux3385
      @markr.devereux3385 Год назад +2

      I don't why that movie was so highly rated and I don't disagree. It was well paced and written and l watched several times and loved it.

    • @jayaybe1
      @jayaybe1 9 месяцев назад +1

      I think the opening scene accompanying Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most wonderful of any movie. Shot brilliantly of course by The Prince of Darkness himself, Gordon Willis.

    • @ranchokitty1
      @ranchokitty1 Месяц назад +1

      a great closing line as well.

  • @mushmorant9253
    @mushmorant9253 6 лет назад +23

    His next film was one of his most brilliant and hilarious pieces, "Zelig".

  • @ysgol3
    @ysgol3 4 года назад +10

    Brilliant brilliant interview.
    Such a pleasure to see a genius questioned so interestingly by a superb, knowledgeable interviewer

  • @knownpleasures
    @knownpleasures 7 лет назад +68

    INTERVIEWS OF THIS QUALITY DONT EXIST ANYMORE

    • @tomsenick2033
      @tomsenick2033 5 лет назад +1

      Thank God!

    • @paulaspen2117
      @paulaspen2117 4 года назад +2

      His speech pattern is similar to how you would speak to a small child or grandmother who might be easily frightened.
      Is very knowledgeable and a very good interview. But I remember when I first started watching him years ago it took a while to get used to because he is the first man that appeared neutered and had to zero aggression or manly mannerisms. I have since grown up and realized his traits don't matter off a football field.

    • @acousticshadow4032
      @acousticshadow4032 3 года назад +1

      Nothing of this quality exists anymore

    • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
      @OMGWTFLOLSMH 3 года назад

      Because Linehan died. Also, no need to yell.

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 3 года назад

      @@paulaspen2117 He was gay.

  • @jm9980
    @jm9980 Месяц назад +1

    First was introduced to Woody Allen when I was 15 years of age and viewed the movie 'Take the Money and Run'....I literally laughed my fuc=ing ass off when me and my buddy went to view this flick at the Parkway Plaza theaters.... I was hooked on Allen ever since...1976 and up

  • @filmmekker
    @filmmekker 4 года назад +18

    This was Woodys red hot period. Everything he did, until the mid 90’s, was good.

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 4 года назад +6

      Definitely. I used to wait in heightened anticipation, of each new film he made, esp in that period.

    • @filmmekker
      @filmmekker 4 года назад +1

      Wayne J Me too.

    • @bartcolen
      @bartcolen 3 года назад +3

      My feelings precisely. The fifteen years from 1975 to 1990 seemed to be particularly florid.

    • @jeffreycoy
      @jeffreycoy 3 года назад

      When did he fall off for you? I liked almost everything up until Celebrity.

    • @filmmekker
      @filmmekker 3 года назад +1

      @@jeffreycoy That sounds about right. He’s been hit or miss ever since- more hit!

  • @lpquagmire3621
    @lpquagmire3621 3 года назад +5

    Over the years A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY has become one of my absolute favourite Allen pictures. It's deceptively simple yet sophisticated and complex, and the perfect movie for a rainy afternoon.

    • @jm9980
      @jm9980 Месяц назад +3

      Perfect movie and always viewed this Great flick after hours on a summer night... However, the first time I had seen this movie was in the mountains of San Diego after renting it out on video on a Winter night.... Town I rented the this great flick??
      ANZA....
      Place where I viewed the film...Folks RV in Palomar valley campground....
      Yeah, that was great! Total fan of this dudes films...Don't care about the BULL SH=T that has been labeled on him

  • @mpilarb
    @mpilarb 7 лет назад +11

    An excellent interview. I stumbled upon these amazing interviews when all those big stars were so young. It's interesting to know about their opinions on their craft and their beginnings.

  • @aidinb6790
    @aidinb6790 5 лет назад +6

    what a great interview

  • @hotstixx
    @hotstixx 5 лет назад +5

    Glad someone else liked midsummers NSC.Some review stated he rushed it and that his heart wasn`t in it..its one of my favorites..and glorious Mendelssohn.

  • @jb428
    @jb428 7 лет назад +10

    Great uploads, thanks for preserving and sharing this. We all could do without the URL onscreen for the entire clip though...

    • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
      @OMGWTFLOLSMH 4 года назад

      Yeah, we don't need a damn watermark across the middle of the screen. NO ONE is interested in ripping this off.

  • @tarnopol
    @tarnopol 8 лет назад +7

    Holy shit, what a monster upload! Thanks!

  • @APisceanSlant
    @APisceanSlant 5 лет назад +10

    As problematic as Allen is, this is such a fantastic interview. Linehan was truly a master of this long-form discussion. Even his short pieces contained integrity. You can tell the subjects, enjoyed Brian's inquisitive questions/insights. My fav interviews are with the alpha male actors---the way he casually disarms them, is always enjoyable

    • @Bozlee22
      @Bozlee22 5 месяцев назад

      what makes him problematic exactly? being framed by that sick woman ?

  • @roseandlilac
    @roseandlilac 3 года назад +2

    I love that he says, "If you're very bright, you can make a case for anything." Dorothy Sayers has a great line in one of her books: "There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited."

    • @markr.devereux3385
      @markr.devereux3385 Год назад

      Haaa good . Woody is one of those quotable type of conversationalist. What a gift to see a lasting piece of your verbal record a part of public consciousness. that is memorable to appear in books magazines and even RUclips. I have always loved truisms homilies and show business quotes. The book publisher Bennet Serf made a lifes work of collecting of celebrity quotes that ran into thousands.

  • @SocialmotionMedia
    @SocialmotionMedia 7 лет назад +5

    Brian was a trip and a CDN treasure. On the edge of just plain strange and Aspergers genius researching mad skills!

  • @jimhowaniec
    @jimhowaniec 3 года назад +1

    Great interview on both ends.

  • @felixthelmocevallosmorales41
    @felixthelmocevallosmorales41 11 месяцев назад +1

    Brian Richard Linehan (September 3, 1944 - June 4, 2004) was a Canadian television host from Hamilton, Ontario, best known for his celebrity interviews on the longrunning talk show City Lights.

  • @jm9980
    @jm9980 Месяц назад +1

    'Reeling in the years' Great tune by one of the Greatest bands in America... Woody Allen films were the STEELY DAN of the movies or STEELY DAN was the 'WOODY ALLEN' of the music world....

  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 5 лет назад +7

    I studied theatre arts 🎭. We all excepted Mr Allen is a Genius. On many levels.

    • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
      @OMGWTFLOLSMH 4 года назад +3

      I hope you accepted him too.

    • @January.
      @January. Год назад

      *accepted Mr. Allen as a genius.

    • @hoserfella
      @hoserfella 10 месяцев назад

      "I studied theatre arts"
      "WE ACCEPTED him as a genius"
      imagine being this self-important...

  • @markr.devereux3385
    @markr.devereux3385 Год назад

    Nice interview with a erudite dude WOODY ALLEN. Brings back the old days of movie making.

  • @Davett53
    @Davett53 Год назад

    2/2023......Great interview!

  • @TheEleatic
    @TheEleatic 7 лет назад +17

    Did you, while sitting in a corner of Studio 54, reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot, recall the fishing trip with your uncle Hershel in upstate New York that lead to a lifelong love of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of The Bumblebee inspire you to write the scene with the Lobsters in Annie Hall?

    • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
      @OMGWTFLOLSMH 4 года назад +6

      Yeah, Linehan is a good interviewer, but sometimes his questions were needlessly complex, like he was trying to impress the subject. I'm all for an interesting question, and I abhor the simpletons who ask "What's your favourite colour?", but I'm good with something in the middle.

    • @ryanpeterson8668
      @ryanpeterson8668 11 месяцев назад +1

      Martin Short and SCTV had some fun with that concept.

    • @geofflepper3207
      @geofflepper3207 4 месяца назад

      I think that you would be perfect to be the host of a brand new
      City Lights show.
      You've got the style down pat.

  • @zenpaganwarrior
    @zenpaganwarrior 2 года назад

    Tony Maxwell? Do you mean Tony Roberts? Yes, I think you do. Great interview!

  • @yourmajesty5197
    @yourmajesty5197 6 лет назад +7

    this guy is my guilty pleasure. always makes me laugh and every thing about him is interesting. his marriage makes me sad even though i know its just fine.

    • @camilochaves4771
      @camilochaves4771 4 года назад +4

      there's nothing guilty about liking him my friend. Don't let fool and mouth breathers get in your way, you have a nice taste for movies and that's very rare these days.

    • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
      @OMGWTFLOLSMH 3 года назад +1

      Why would you feel guilty about a pleasure?

    • @January.
      @January. Год назад

      *everything

    • @January.
      @January. Год назад

      @@camilochaves4771 *fools

  • @dionaschin6446
    @dionaschin6446 4 года назад

    very good

  • @jm9980
    @jm9980 Месяц назад +1

    Manhatten was definitely a smooth and relaxing movie, but nothig compared to Annie Hall, Crimes, Hannah, and of course Husbands and wives ,which is my personal FAVORITE...

    • @jm9980
      @jm9980 Месяц назад +1

      Sleeper great too... Love and Death, Bananas, Broadway Danny Rose, Stardust memories, Take the money and Run, September, Zelig, Mighty aphrodite, Everything you always wanted to know about sex* but were afraid to ask.

  • @peterj4741
    @peterj4741 4 года назад +6

    wow, Woody has a very concise and direct theory on filmmaking and visual media. He should/would/ is/be a master professor of the Art and is underutilized as an educator due to his "peculiar" predilections when it comes to sexuality. Its a shame and really should be corrected. yes he's weird, yes, you can judge him, but lets not overlook, or forget what he did, and what he knows.

    • @January.
      @January. Год назад +1

      I don't find him weird.

  • @AquaFurs
    @AquaFurs 4 года назад +3

    The interviewer needs to be in the camera angle, jeez.

  • @40pianos
    @40pianos 3 года назад +1

    I have an ever increasing appreciation for Linehan and his interviews the same way I do John Coltrane recordings.

  • @AlexHolmes.
    @AlexHolmes. 3 года назад +1

    SUCH A FUNKY OPENING WTF

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 3 месяца назад

    I love that movie. Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

  • @felixthelmocevallosmorales41
    @felixthelmocevallosmorales41 Год назад

    Allen Stewart Konigsberg, nombre real de Woody Allen, nació el 1 de diciembre de 1935 en Brooklyn, Nueva York (Estados Unidos).

  • @emanuelacomerio5334
    @emanuelacomerio5334 4 года назад

    Tutti aspettano in futuro un character Ingmar, Bergman. Ingrid é un character diverso, piú interiore, piú nascosto. Più criptico mi permetto di dire. Ma ció deriva dagli estimatori della filosofia greca platonico e socratica. Una filosofia che originò i miti come character. Recentemente ho avuto l'onore di ascoltare una lezione sul mito di Elettra (eugene o'neil). Una perfetta Ingrid ad esempio. Per una Ingmar ci vuole ad esempio una Nora di Ibsen o una Norma di Simenon secondo me.

  • @user-bh4mk9tx5x
    @user-bh4mk9tx5x 3 месяца назад

    🦋

  • @acousticshadow4032
    @acousticshadow4032 3 года назад +1

    I still laugh my derriere off at "Play It Again, Sam", which I have owned for decades

    • @davidsheriff9274
      @davidsheriff9274 3 года назад

      I love that movie too, Woody actually did not direct it.

    • @acousticshadow4032
      @acousticshadow4032 3 года назад +1

      @@davidsheriff9274 Pardon, but who said he did?

    • @davidsheriff9274
      @davidsheriff9274 3 года назад

      @@acousticshadow4032 chill out, I just thought it was an interesting fact that you might have not know,no need to be a douche.

    • @acousticshadow4032
      @acousticshadow4032 3 года назад +2

      @@davidsheriff9274 The problem was your (mis)wording - ya dumb dickhead

    • @deathrecordsdead9015
      @deathrecordsdead9015 2 года назад +1

      Me too. It’s on my list of Top Five favorite movies.

  • @phoenixzappa7366
    @phoenixzappa7366 8 лет назад +2

    God that interviewer

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 5 лет назад +2

      "That interviewer"?? It's Brian Linehan! To many people, he's more famous than Woody Allen or any other given guest he has interviewed.

    • @giovanna8187
      @giovanna8187 4 года назад +1

      @@chocomanger6873 Yes, he was a Canadian treasure. His mannerisms throw some people off, but he was a wonderful interviewer.

  • @frankandstern8803
    @frankandstern8803 4 года назад +3

    26:20 Atari the new G-d. Oh man if they only knew what was coming. Watched this unfold that year. I was 12 yrs old. The thing that competed with comic books for a boy's attention. But this wasn't the same. Hours and hours of idle wasted time in front of the idiot box. Still is such a bad idea. Bringing what were called arcades into your home.

    • @acoustify6823
      @acoustify6823 3 года назад

      Very prescient, they could not have foreseen the CGI mess that movies would become.

  • @fjfjrfjfjr
    @fjfjrfjfjr 2 года назад

    Would be great if these interviewers exited the building during the interview. rather than try to impress us with their lackluster comments.

  • @alukuhito
    @alukuhito 3 года назад

    It's amazing just how much early 80s Allen looks like late 60s my dad.

  • @billdavis9612
    @billdavis9612 3 года назад

    This is the interviewer who was spoofed by Martin Short on SCTV interviewing Bob Hope, played by Dave Thomas, who calls him on his portentous style: "When you stop talking, it's like walking to the edge of a cliff." ruclips.net/video/BJDK71B6xI8/видео.html

  • @leonardoiglesias2394
    @leonardoiglesias2394 5 лет назад +3

    The interviewer loves to talk

  • @terryhanready5068
    @terryhanready5068 4 года назад

    In the words of Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes"...."Hmmm it seems the older the civilization...the more advanced it is."

    • @larryboyle2786
      @larryboyle2786 3 года назад

      terry hanready it was Roddy McDowell.

  • @retardedwithdownsyndrom
    @retardedwithdownsyndrom 2 года назад

    the guy seemed more into bergman than woody.

  • @flaggerify
    @flaggerify 5 лет назад +2

    Screw this watermark.

  • @shangrila73eldorado
    @shangrila73eldorado 6 лет назад

    dye job...woody as a redhead. imagined him totally bald and laughed out loud. I love woody. but he does have a deadly look when he is serious. I bet he doesn't take any shit.

  • @dogman4100
    @dogman4100 7 лет назад +4

    INTERVIEWER: "Now Woody, I've been inside your heart, and I've looked at it quite extensively. What is this little dark spot that I see?"

    • @yourmajesty5197
      @yourmajesty5197 6 лет назад +1

      Pesky Echo he didnt adopt her. u r misinformed. and he got his punisbment for seducing his girlfriend's daughter. a marriage founded on loyalty borne of isolation and poor judgement.

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 4 года назад

      It was a corned beef sandwich and a malt.

  • @TheEleatic
    @TheEleatic 4 года назад +1

    Have you reflected on the influence of Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion and his pacifist stance on the socio-political trend in America's increasing opposition to the Vietnam War, or are you more interested in the toning benefits of aerobics on women's bottoms, but still retain an admiration for the defense of Keynesian economic theory in Laverne and Shirley?

  • @dustinwatkins7843
    @dustinwatkins7843 2 года назад

    Martin short makes fun of him lol

  • @Geritopia
    @Geritopia 7 лет назад

    Interesting interview. I always have mixed feelings about seeing Allen mature, which is an absurd thing to apply to most people. But he could be uniquely funny in impromptu situations, including interviews. Then his films referenced cinema auteurs, which demanded more from the interviewer... things almost too mired in analysis for much spontaneity, let alone a joke.
    Also, the interviewer, while excellent, was very shiny.

  • @joeblevins1061
    @joeblevins1061 4 года назад

    if you can read this comment right now, please tell me what you think is happening at 27:47 through 27:52.

  • @dustinwatkins7843
    @dustinwatkins7843 2 года назад

    omg not him lol

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant2 4 года назад +1

    No comment

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 3 месяца назад

    Is Woody wearing a toupee? His hair looks fake.

  • @salimegypt6277
    @salimegypt6277 4 года назад

    creepy

  • @melissamaylath2289
    @melissamaylath2289 5 лет назад +3

    I like Woody Allen as director. Actor , & some of his flims are actually pretty good, watchable, & funny to say the least. Can even be considered classics, But as a person HELL NO. 😤 HE'S A MEESKITE, AND DESPICABLE ON SOME MANY LEVELS, & A DEGENERATE.

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 4 года назад +2

      Wow. I think you should cut back on your conumption of raw meat.

    • @Io-Io-Io
      @Io-Io-Io 4 года назад +1

      You Are insane. Find a shrink now!

    • @fieldingm1969
      @fieldingm1969 4 года назад

      Moron.

    • @darrensmith342
      @darrensmith342 3 года назад

      Ignorant uneducated statement.

  • @richardbullis6263
    @richardbullis6263 4 года назад +3

    Woody Allen is next after Harvey Weinstein. Enough already with these men.

    • @lewisc215
      @lewisc215 4 года назад +2

      Idiotic rubbish

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 4 года назад +1

      Wtf!

    • @Io-Io-Io
      @Io-Io-Io 4 года назад +1

      Richard Bully

    • @fellowcitizen
      @fellowcitizen 3 года назад +1

      Zero foundation to the accusation, and no condemnation of Mia Farrow whose children have claimed she has abused them and who has defended Polanski the proven molester. One of her children committed suicide, and certainly Dylan's entire self has been destroyed.

    • @charlesknowlton7198
      @charlesknowlton7198 3 года назад +1

      @@fellowcitizen Not to mention she had a child with Frank Sinatra while dating Allen. Some people actually believed her when she said that Ronan was Woody's child.

  • @tomsenick2033
    @tomsenick2033 3 года назад

    Woody allen is little creepy guy.

  • @HansDelbruck53
    @HansDelbruck53 Год назад

    This guy's a horrible interviewer. Woody Allen deserves better.

    • @chickenringNYC
      @chickenringNYC Год назад +2

      You're wrong, watch more of Brian's interviews. His subjects all respect his intelligence, preparation and sincere knowledge of their work.