Susan Sontag and Agnès Varda

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @OliverGByrne
    @OliverGByrne 9 месяцев назад +63

    I love how it felt Sontag and Varda where mentally communicating with each other throughout the interview. It is like we can hear them going “Is this man for real?!” . Their faces say it all. What a wasted opportunity , we could have had those two legends talk to each other instead …

  • @dominiquerivard
    @dominiquerivard 4 года назад +560

    This should be renamed: Jack Kroll says what he thinks of Susan Sontag and Agnès Varda films and sometimes allows them to speak.

    • @MsBluewise
      @MsBluewise 3 года назад +11

      Absolutely. He can't wait for them to leave a space. My thoughts too. It could easily have been so much more.

    • @SuperRobertoClemente
      @SuperRobertoClemente 3 года назад +13

      Thank goodness for your comment, I can't bear to watch

    • @dr.pennington1664
      @dr.pennington1664 3 года назад +23

      @@MsBluewise yes, and when Sontag says "In real life people interrupt people all the time..." he interrupts her at that very moment.

    • @yvonneb8555
      @yvonneb8555 Год назад +2

      Was just going to say I was skipping around in the transcript trying to find the places where he’s not talking and let’s just say it was a challenge!! 😒

    • @kbarnbrook4993
      @kbarnbrook4993 Год назад +6

      @Yvonne B The problem is he seems to be talking, for the sake of talking, and what he is saying is complete nonsense, it doesn't sound like he understands the work of either director, just bluff.

  • @MichaelPhillips-cg8zk
    @MichaelPhillips-cg8zk 3 года назад +231

    Lol when Susan Sontag was like “in Films people never interrupt other people, that’s not life real like where people are always interrupting eacho-“ Jack: *interrupts*

  • @priad2179
    @priad2179 4 года назад +320

    i just - the way susan stares at the interviewer... the way agnes called him out on his racism immidiately... their genius, his idiocy.... I -

    • @priad2179
      @priad2179 4 года назад +14

      "You're intellectuals - that's a bad word - you're women - that's a good word - "

    • @fastinbulvis2223
      @fastinbulvis2223 2 года назад +1

      The way agnes squeezes in the smear "racism" as soon as she can, even though it had nothing to do with what they were talking about. FIFY

    • @drparnassus2867
      @drparnassus2867 2 года назад +9

      I think Varda meant "It's a bit disrespectful calling other people 'grotesque'", and English wasn't her first language.

    • @hazelwray4184
      @hazelwray4184 Год назад

      'his racism immediately'

  • @sherminep
    @sherminep 4 года назад +120

    this is terrible, the most brilliant thinkers and artists of everrrrrr together and he wont shut up. how many times did he say grotesque? por dios

  • @michaelwatson4218
    @michaelwatson4218 3 года назад +100

    He's mansplaining their own films to them. This should go in the Hall of Fame of Mansplaining.

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 2 года назад

      He's almost as annoying as all the pissy woke people complaining about him on this page.

    • @andreaandrea6716
      @andreaandrea6716 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yes!!!

  • @erichruyalves
    @erichruyalves 10 месяцев назад +19

    7:33 "in film people usually don´t interrupt others in the middle of the phrase"
    DAMN SUSAN

  • @allfieldsrequired1
    @allfieldsrequired1 4 года назад +100

    Did Agnes Varda get to finish a complete sentence at all?

  • @thefionaadventures
    @thefionaadventures Год назад +26

    this interview is so frustrating but so calming at the same time

    • @SculptExpress-gv8jp
      @SculptExpress-gv8jp Год назад +5

      I love it. There is an interesting tension here on an intellectual level. We have nothing like that today. We are being forcefully fed with reality trash or nauseous comedy. The void is so big and painful.

    • @andreaandrea6716
      @andreaandrea6716 10 месяцев назад

      @@SculptExpress-gv8jp Best comment!!!
      Yes. Everyone now is supposed to be 'Nice' and not hurt anyone's feelings. There is to be no discussion about anything. It's all pablum, or about 'who's right.'
      I watch old Dick Cavett shows. He challenges but also, He's charming and affectionate with his guests.

  • @joesatana
    @joesatana 2 года назад +27

    Susan Sontag And Agnès Varda are two of the most interesting and influential artists of the 20Th century, who is Jack Kroll?

  • @mschristyleigh
    @mschristyleigh 4 года назад +111

    He's so in over his head with these brilliant women! He's literally squirming.

    • @Mistermopar
      @Mistermopar 2 года назад

      Your brilliant Susan Sontag claims that ‘The white race is the cancer of human history’. I find her truly repugnant!

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 2 года назад +4

      Why is _everything_ some kind of competition or battle these days? The guy had about as much charm as wet skunk but, for pity's sake, it's an interviewer's job to take interviewees to task a bit. A less confrontational interviewer may not have made Varda and Sontag come across so well.

    • @fastinbulvis2223
      @fastinbulvis2223 2 года назад +3

      "brilliant"? They were both overrated and underperforming.

    • @Kraisedion
      @Kraisedion 2 года назад +4

      @@fastinbulvis2223 How exactly did Varda underperform?

    • @kbarnbrook4993
      @kbarnbrook4993 Год назад

      @blackmore4 They only come across so well, because the guy is a complete buffoon, he just continously waffles, no connection to either womens subject matter.

  • @AkashGupta-zx9iw
    @AkashGupta-zx9iw 8 месяцев назад +7

    2:02 Susan- Don't worry Agnes, I'm gonna put him in his place!

  • @SoCalFreelance
    @SoCalFreelance 4 года назад +69

    Breaks out a cigarette live on air -- definitely a different era.

  • @hc6271
    @hc6271 3 года назад +26

    the way sontag stares into the camera within the first 3 minutes like 'are you hearing this guy..?'

  • @tomheneghan9602
    @tomheneghan9602 4 года назад +56

    "There is something happening here but you don't know what it is do you, Mr Jones"

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 2 года назад +2

      "Something"? That's right, Bob Dylan didn't know what it was either.

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo 2 года назад

      I was actually thinking of that song as I watched this. Thank you.

  • @livetoshoptolive
    @livetoshoptolive 3 года назад +101

    this is why we need feminism.

    • @unknowndes1re
      @unknowndes1re 3 года назад +1

      Lol

    • @SuperRobertoClemente
      @SuperRobertoClemente 3 года назад +2

      yup

    • @fastinbulvis2223
      @fastinbulvis2223 2 года назад

      This is why feminism died and why boring and pretentious women like these two killed it.

    • @godelianconfucianism8184
      @godelianconfucianism8184 2 года назад

      You need feminism to let bourgeois intellectuals spread philosophical bullshittery and red propaganda on television? Lmao

  • @magicknight13
    @magicknight13 2 года назад +18

    Two fantastic intelligent dedicated women!!

  • @jacksondiianni389
    @jacksondiianni389 3 года назад +76

    Agnes: What do you mean grotesque? My characters aren't grotesque. Are they insects? Are they garbage? Who said grotesque? What the fuck does that mean?
    Susan: Let me just fire up this spliff ...

  • @angelachristina.v
    @angelachristina.v 4 года назад +41

    Susan Sontag and Agnès Varda will always be remembered as great, the interviewer not. Harsh but true.

    • @abelnicolaebaritone
      @abelnicolaebaritone 2 года назад +1

      none of them are remembered

    • @harrys919
      @harrys919 6 месяцев назад +1

      Literally just wrong?​@@abelnicolaebaritone

  • @jackloo7233
    @jackloo7233 9 месяцев назад +2

    I love both of these women.

  • @varmaraviajay
    @varmaraviajay 4 года назад +45

    i love how the interviewer really does not know how to ask questions. preferred route is to put forward his opinion and ask them to comment. hahahaha. and have to commend the ladies for fielding this gracefully, while really calling out when words are being put in their mouths

  • @ingridllinas5612
    @ingridllinas5612 Год назад +2

    So interesting to know about their way of thinking and what was behind those scenes. They were looking for authenticity, and somehow media or TV had an influence on the people. Look like having a political background, but according to them, they were real people and there was kind of humor in Sontag’s film.
    Thanks so much.

  • @pavelserdyuk
    @pavelserdyuk 3 года назад +18

    Was it a lecture or an interview?

  • @johncampbell1152
    @johncampbell1152 3 года назад +52

    Jack Kroll is appalling. Agnès was a genius, as was Susan. I loathe Kroll’s condescension. Why must he keep saying he’s playing the devil’s advocate?

    • @SuperRobertoClemente
      @SuperRobertoClemente 3 года назад +12

      "devil's advocate" = I have nothing to say but I won't stop talking

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 2 года назад +4

      I didn't like him either but for pity's sake, it's an interviewer's job to take their subjects to task. Please don't fall into this terrible modern trap of being freaked out about anything or anyone you don't agree with.

    • @abelnicolaebaritone
      @abelnicolaebaritone 2 года назад +2

      oh how the definition of genius has gone into decay, my god...

    • @andreaandrea6716
      @andreaandrea6716 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@blackmore4 No. It isn't because Kroll is unlikable. It's because he's RUDE! He's a condescending horse's ass who likes the sound of his own voice and thinks, because he's speaking to women, that he can speak DOWN to them. And it's not because I'm young and don't understand the difference between now and then. If you listen to Dick Cavett, he is also intellectually challenging but he is NOT rude and he is not condescending. There IS a difference. (I'm old enough to remember. I love and miss the days when we actually talked about things and challenged each other intellectually. Now, everything is about who's wrong and who's right. There is no intellectual discussion and that is a great shame!).

  • @Edibetogac
    @Edibetogac 3 года назад +6

    Ahhh iki sevdiğim müthiş kadın bir arada .

  • @thaliafourli7707
    @thaliafourli7707 4 года назад +37

    I don't get angry easily but this man enraged me. How can someone be so arrogant and clueless? So disrespectful...

    • @CarlongoArenas
      @CarlongoArenas Год назад

      with this, you can see how the world has changed, and just with little feminism

    • @SculptExpress-gv8jp
      @SculptExpress-gv8jp Год назад +1

      Enraged you?? Disrespectful? In the Trumpist media age, you find this so bad? The journalist is supposed to put some hard talk forward and they (the ladies who I like very much) can handle it. They are not fools, they can defend their work (this is the society of 1960s). Who needs a candy floss type of interview?

    • @hoimoitoigoi
      @hoimoitoigoi Год назад

      ​@@SculptExpress-gv8jpwell sure, if only this was an actual interview and not a guy talking at Sontag and Varda with his dull readings of their films 😅

  • @Eva-ne8nn
    @Eva-ne8nn 2 года назад +15

    most impressive thing to me about this is how susan sontag casually wont exhale her cig smoke

  • @citomp1240
    @citomp1240 2 года назад +2

    ah would love Susan and Agnes.

  • @varmaraviajay
    @varmaraviajay 4 года назад +26

    hahahaa this is a short film in itself

  • @balajis1602
    @balajis1602 4 года назад +15

    I could get a sense of what the US was like back then with this interview....In many ways still the same attitude and pseudo-intellectuality persists

  • @andreaandrea6716
    @andreaandrea6716 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is why we had the Women's Movement.

  • @mwcmango
    @mwcmango 4 года назад +31

    these interviewers of this ilk have no interest in learning about the person they are interviewing. They are just interested in confirming to the audience what they already believe to be true and is inevitably not true.

  • @EM-tl9sz
    @EM-tl9sz Год назад +5

    It is such a different interview when a journalist starts with an accurate understanding of their subject and proceeds with intelligence and curiousity, rather than an impressionistic smirk.

  • @MartinQMurphy
    @MartinQMurphy 2 года назад +2

    fantastic

  • @darrriadoes
    @darrriadoes 2 года назад +5

    "you're intellectuals. bad word. women. good word" - tf this man even talking about..

  • @alicecarrick-smith5855
    @alicecarrick-smith5855 3 года назад +16

    susan is such a geezer just chuffing a durry whilst smirking at him

  • @konnik2326
    @konnik2326 4 года назад +18

    I understand why the word "intellectual" is bad for him. Pure sexism and stupidity.

  • @whhzh2ziah
    @whhzh2ziah 2 года назад +1

    수잔손택 목소리에서 지적인 매력이 뚝뚝 떨어짐.. ㅠ 영화배우도 했어도 잘했을듯. 핵간지남.

  • @nealjohnston954
    @nealjohnston954 2 года назад +12

    I like how the so called interviewer fumbles and dissolves as he instantaneously recognizes he has no formulated argument worth mentioning. He is clearly disarmed by these two great personalities. His only approach is to stretch out his murky remarks with long over run sentences - to arrive at the same dead end point of expressing dissaproval and contempt.

    • @Tauan
      @Tauan 2 года назад +2

      And the worst of all, he is impassive! He is too blind by his own ego to even consider the possibility of a different approach, to anything, really. It's tragic.

  • @abreshmeee
    @abreshmeee 6 месяцев назад

    GOD, I LOVE WOMEN SO MUCH.

  • @mahoneykumar
    @mahoneykumar 4 года назад +20

    This is enlightening. Real world language, “long haired” people seem very threatening in Jack Kroll’s line of questioning. Today, it is LGBTQ and ethnicities and non-Christian religions.

  • @JamesKolakowski
    @JamesKolakowski 3 года назад +7

    love how the annoying interviewer proves her point at 7:38

  • @turkandulger9013
    @turkandulger9013 6 месяцев назад

    Ben olsam orayı terk ederim. İkisi de neden bu kadar sakin. 😮
    Bu kabul edilemez.

  • @Droidruid1993
    @Droidruid1993 9 месяцев назад +2

    Love these two but who"s the weirdo bothering them?

  • @TheJork64
    @TheJork64 4 года назад +9

    Ya siéntese, señor 😞

  • @IsabellavonLanthen
    @IsabellavonLanthen 4 месяца назад

    literally absurd man, incredible women

  • @fredschwartz5032
    @fredschwartz5032 Год назад +2

    missed opportunity. terrible interview but good to see the ladies

  • @cinema2748
    @cinema2748 8 месяцев назад

    I wouold have asked the interviewer that - "I would like to know your definition of "grotesque" to be able to analyze if we can associate the term with the people or not. I would rather say that they are their own beings and other people attaching "tag" names to tme to box them - is it fair ??!!

  • @adamkhmer
    @adamkhmer Год назад +6

    Watching this after the announcement that Kristen Stewart will play Sontag. And I think my girl will do her justice. Can’t wait to see the META biopic.

  • @carolaybob
    @carolaybob 3 года назад

    And ,,,,,where's the interviuw???

  • @davidspihers1757
    @davidspihers1757 10 месяцев назад +1

    That guy is such a tool. Patronizing, interrupting and mansplainy you can tell how irritated he is that Sontag and Varda aren’t on board with him.

  • @Margaret-yt5zv
    @Margaret-yt5zv 3 месяца назад +1

    He brought 2 incredible women together to talk at them.. what a waste

  • @ericmalone3213
    @ericmalone3213 Год назад +2

    Jack Kroll can not deal with Susan Sontag or Agnes Varda. All is lost on him.

  • @Taino07272002
    @Taino07272002 3 года назад +4

    What year was this...? I don't see actual year.

    • @Frank-mm2yp
      @Frank-mm2yp 3 года назад +2

      1969 @ the 7th Annual NY Film Festial

  • @ferre347
    @ferre347 3 года назад +3

    He’s inadequate.. he fears it and it shows

  • @emil5322
    @emil5322 2 года назад +4

    what a truely unpleasant man

  • @mac2phin
    @mac2phin 2 года назад +3

    I know Jack Shit, er, Kroll.

  • @soundsofsense
    @soundsofsense 3 года назад +27

    He cannot stand that their are clearly smarter than him 🤣

  • @daliamartinez1494
    @daliamartinez1494 4 года назад +15

    What an awful interviewer 🤬🤬
    I would of leave

  • @casssmith9479
    @casssmith9479 11 месяцев назад

    Watching this with the Tom Tom Club in the background, it goes pretty well despite the fact Jack Kroll is annoying and stupid and bad at interviewing these two powerhouses.

  • @lethokuhlemsimang2208
    @lethokuhlemsimang2208 Год назад

    I swear, so many interviews conducted around this time were so unabashedly chauvinist

  • @joannaknight5590
    @joannaknight5590 3 года назад +1

  • @pennyb9445
    @pennyb9445 4 года назад +12

    Jack Kroll The mansplaining king!

  • @paulhorn27
    @paulhorn27 2 года назад +2

    The interviewer just loves listening to the sound of his own voice. EWW!

  • @petemc5070
    @petemc5070 Год назад +1

    Sontag is super interesting, but that clip from her film is laughably bad.

  • @rhuang9683
    @rhuang9683 4 года назад +2

    what year is this from?

  • @keihnungm2011
    @keihnungm2011 4 года назад +3

    should've got dick cavett (or better yet no 'interviewer' at all)

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 2 года назад

      God, you're _so_ 21st century.

    • @keihnungm2011
      @keihnungm2011 2 года назад

      @@blackmore4 you're a womble

  • @ekanaeva
    @ekanaeva 2 года назад +1

    he makes me so mad

  • @lynxapollonia7511
    @lynxapollonia7511 3 года назад +2

    I liked this video only for the wonderful, interesting, intelligent, beautiful women. The rest frustrates me so much, I want to dislike it:)

  • @barbarajohnson1442
    @barbarajohnson1442 2 года назад

    Real people are grotesque, sad man.

  • @friendlier
    @friendlier Год назад +1

    A masterclass in mansplaining.

  • @Frank-mm2yp
    @Frank-mm2yp 3 года назад +1

    The "Senior Editor of NEWSWEEK" (!) was way out of his league vs Sontag and Varda. Perhaps he might have been more comfortable interviewing the then current Miss America and her First Runner-up? Pathetic....
    NEWSWEEK?! Were they kidding?

  • @diamondcomposte
    @diamondcomposte 2 года назад +1

    What an annoying interviewer. I wish he would have just let them speak amongst themselves.

  • @clonetrooper1998
    @clonetrooper1998 3 месяца назад

    god the host is just insufferable

  • @hugo2216
    @hugo2216 2 года назад

    selective perspective , cough ...

  • @liltick102
    @liltick102 Год назад

    The 80’s is when everything sucked, the people-everything did, at least more.. the 20’s-70’s were rad. 90’s reupped briefly culturally...

  • @davidchipps
    @davidchipps 3 года назад +1

    I'VE NEVER WANTED TO BE TRANSGENDER. BUT, TO THINK OF WASTING ALL THAT MONEY AND END UP LOOKING AND ACTING LIKE SUSAN SONTAG at the end of the day. I'd still never sleep with MATT LE BLANC and I'D LOOK LIKE THAT.

  • @abelnicolaebaritone
    @abelnicolaebaritone 2 года назад +3

    I like how the masses always cheer and get a hard-on when feminism is expressed by rudeness and unpoliteness. True, the interviewer has many flaws, but, in his ignorance, he is nontheless a gentleman. The ladies, on the other hand, have their fists up, ready to strike at the first word they find minimally condescending.