John Carpenter discusses ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in 1994

Digitized from the Director's Special Edition VHS tape.

[@melvinch]

John Carpenter deserves a lifetime achievement award. His movies are way ahead of its time.

[@Villeins09]

He's getting ready to receive one tomorrow at the Cannes film festival in Paris.

[@cylersmiley5259]

Prove that his movies are ahead lol prove it Seems like they are right on their time

[@beyondz55]

John Carpenter is a genius and during this period of time he was on a goddamn roll making classic film one after the other. EFNY, Halloween, The Thing, They Live are all some of my most favorite films.

[@Test-mf9fy]

Assault on Precinct 13 too.

[@AdamWBush]

Big trouble in little China “the check is in the mail “

[@craigwilson3532]

Mouth of madness is pretty good too

[@zhushinthunderliger1495]

@@AdamWBush😅😊😮wt🎉

[@MegaJetJaguar]

One of the greatest motion pictures ever filmed!

[@colddarkplanet]

Fuckin right !

[@Craigstaaygear]

Indeed, a film masterclass. And on a 6 million dollar budget!

[@duke_of_destruction]

The greatest writer and director right there!!! John Carpenter is the best!!!

[@badder27com]

one of the best movies soundtracks acting ever put to film

[@noobie1890]

Sergio Leonne’s “Man With No Name” trilogy has him beat...thanks to legendary composer Ennino Morricone

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@noobie18905:15 what a special effects company!

[@michaelmartin7943]

Is it thirty years later now... and it is still one of the best movies ever! Well done Carpenter!

[@londonbowcat1]

It's about a police state and its about the world's biggest vision

[@TylerSorensen]

Finally digitized this #JohnCarpenter interview, which had been languishing on a VHS tape for years. #EscapeFromNewYork

[@ChrisV25]

I love this guys work. Thank you!

[@RagedContinuum]

+Tyler Sorensen Thanks - carpenter is one of the greatest

[@malloid]

Not seen this before and it's excellent. Thanks for sharing!

[@Javier-rm5cr]

Thanks for uploading this man

[@codyhollis3677]

GREATEST MOVIE EVERRRRRR MADE......

[@londonbowcat1]

14:30 but why does he kill the Duke

[@RK-ml2ns]

Talent + Genius = Mr John Carpenter.

[@derrickbonner6911]

If you think about it we're living in those times now...An the opening of the movie with the plane going towards the trade center was eerie since this movie came out in 81 82 an the towers going down in 2001 the same way....John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors

[@maciekgutkowski8075]

And the people in power in New York in this movie look a lot like Antifa and Black Lives Matter put together ... modern radical leftists.

[@stonehenge55]

I found this movie on VHS in my local library around 1987-88 and watched it with my friends about 50 times going into the 90s. We still talk about this movie to this day and quote random lines.

[@ericragan]

The greatest movie ever made, and my favorite for over 30 years now

[@londonbowcat1]

7:20 I want to hear more about why they used that song

[@maxkerkar7175]

One of my favorite movie ever

[@Powers3848]

Mine too.

[@chuckselvage3157]

One of my favourite films of the 80s John Carpenter owned that era.

[@14hourstosteve17]

What I enjoy about this interview is how much credit Carpenter gives to the team of talented people around him. Sign of a true leader and creator.

[@londonbowcat1]

2:30 Iran Hostage Crisis

[@RamboAAssil]

Watched with Saturday night I love this movie brings back childhood memories 80’s was the best time and can never be replicated or equaled.

[@joedavis376]

I had this VHS edition. It’s cool to revisit this many years later.

[@creativechau]

The 90s decor is everything... This was an awesome watch

[@BOB1972ize]

80s

[@marshimaroo]

I love this movie.

[@colddarkplanet]

My most beautiful favourite movie...only regret is that I can’t see it for the first time ...Epic

[@dickclements]

Love the narrator's voice... so many childhood memories

[@paulmcdonough1093]

Went to see JC IN CONCERT IN LIVERPOOL RECENTLY IT WAS GREAT

[@TheJamesAnimations]

I was there too, fucking awesome night, hope he tours again

[@davidbowie2046]

I was there too :) amazing night

[@dafteverton7218]

I wish i went. Mad though how many of us dig on this sort of culture. We are boss.

[@maddestmax6522]

I just watched escape from New York last night. Thought is was brilliant. Ahhhh and the theme

[@derrickbonner6911]

I watch it every night now days. I just watched it last night 3 in the morning All Star Cast cult classic one of my five favorite movies of all time

[@spb7883]

15:17 - what an incredibly pithy comment by Carpenter, and remarkably in contrast to the ensuing 25 years of popular culture since the time of this interview. Now, instead of waiting a few years for something to be considered classic (as Carpenter rightly suggests we should do), the "instant classics" pop up every 5 minutes. and in reality there's been a handful of American movies made since the 2000s that people will remember as being significant in 25 years. there's no concern for timelessness or durability because our films - like our music - are our technology now. it's how something is made rather than how or why it means that people care about today. Sad.

[@adrianjohnson8527]

Agreed.

[@keithlestrange4249]

2022 and we're are still watching it

[@gamergirl5317]

im pretty sure most people who have seen this film would agree it is a GREAT FILM of its time and still is a great film,I still have it on my iTunes library and still watch it from time to time

[@londonbowcat1]

3:30 1977 fire in East St Louis

[@Theomite]

I've been looking for this for years. I sold my old VHS collection in '03 due to financial idiocy and have regretted parting with this one ever since.

[@soflodoug]

Its happening now.

[@gkroll8467]

Corstafines comment was excellent

[@andrescotapo3653]

This is a masterpiece . Original old school movie. 1981. It should be left alone, no remake. Another time another era. Good actors. Kurt Russell as snake plisken .

[@londonbowcat1]

9:15 a western !!! Odyssey Against authority figure and criminal A lone gun slinger Action science fiction Starman Mouth of madness Assault on Precint 13 Disney Elvis ! Asexual!

[@epiculo2]

Looking at that in 2021 seems quite prophetic.

[@chazzlucas6395]

Nick Castle played Michael Myers ( the Shape ) in the original Halloween movie ... In case people didn't know

[@wolfslynx8118]

I recall from ivory tower grad school Rand or Brookings did a white paper/thought experiment on militarization and federalization of police and making Wyoming the only level 6 maxi max for USA and my student peers looking at me laughing when I referred to EFNY. This was 1994....so ahead of its time.

[@chrissnyder3430]

A POLICE STATE! Hmmmmm.... why does that ring a bell??? Sitting here May 2020 and for some reason it just feels eerily familiar.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

Not even close

[@Daneiladams555]

Genius

[@tranzorz6293]

miss J.C. wish hed make movies again.

[@ericchamberlain9260]

Full scale, wow!

[@montrealfilmguy]

I thought VHS was dead..... see what i did there :-)

[@TylerSorensen]

lol

[@capello5688]

To quote Snake in EFLA - "Pretty good."

[@montrealfilmguy]

@Bruce S its a gag about how everyone in Escape from NY is always saying..Plissken .. i thought you were dead.

[@songbirdforjesus2381]

NY needs many Snake Pliskins now. Sept.2020

[@MrBryan247]

He's prophetic this is post-covid

[@vampsith]

Well now we’re all waiting for Escape from the Delta Variant

[@rodrigovigorito]

where do i find the cut scene from the robbery with the quality that they show on this documentary ? because i just did found a blue one low quality of some Mbs

[@michaelmoore1386]

Snake Plissken it's on KZbin now. Good quality.

[@noobie1890]

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[@powermetal26]

Why the heck is the Bank Robery scene not included with my Blue Ray copy?

[@noobie1890]

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[@derrickbonner6911]

Is there a copy of the movie with snake robbin the bank?

[@danielruiz3853]

efny is my favorite western of all time

[@londonbowcat1]

Say what ?

[@indianastarkjones1535]

I am about 2 years older than JC is in this interview 1994 and he still looks 20 years older than I do now.He aged poorly,like reverse Benjamin Button....so odd.But he is one of my top 5 directors of all time..really top 2 or 3.

[@derrickbonner6911]

An also the gulf fire fell from the towers like some ppl did in the attacks R.I.P to everyone who lost their lives on that day🙏🙏but i took a lot from this movie because it mirrors now times police state prison industrial complex China, Russia, tracking an tracing this Movie covered it all almost 40 years ago. ALL STAR CAST WAS BRILLIANT the music the beats Escape from New York is my shit

[@colddarkplanet]

I love Snake ....btw....😋

[@JuanRivera-gc7fq]

Is the blackout of 76 too

[@dafteverton7218]

Ace.

[@pauls9844]

0:50 bit of a backhand saying it’s good enough for people looking for the theatre’s ac

[@noddyholder79]

A very cool cat

[@FromtheHerts81]

A western indeed? Well, it does have Lee Van Cleef in it.

[@londonbowcat1]

15:56 where is the mouth of madness footage

[@ZarconVideo]

lol on trailer guy voice

[@KevinStriker]

Holy shit, is that Jim Cummings?

[@p.sutcliffe114]

Western, noir, action adventure, black comedy, science fiction...what is this film?

[@derrickbonner6911]

10 years 20 years try 38 years.....

[@MISTR_samsonite]

Well he definitely called it …NY is quite literally a prison nowadays

[@p.a.russell4210]

Smell-o-Vision gives you the true experience of diversity.

[@badboyscoob124]

And in 2020, it's becoming a reality, and by 202_, it WILL be a reality!!

[@kevinbarton9052]

Great one. At least Manhattan is still alive today, but we never forget the World Trade Center. Now, Manhattan has the Freedom Tower debuted in 2014.

[@keithlestrange4249]

Shouldve kept the original start

[@gwenctoliver9550]

Trump's wall brought me here.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

3:29 and this is why nobody will ever match the atmosphere this movie had imo. Well, part of the reason, but a large part. Also Cabbie kinda stole the show imo, so good job Nick lol.

[@CodeLeeCarter]

#Portland in 2021,... We should Wall Portland off and leave them to it!

[@JuanRivera-gc7fq]

I thought back then 81 koch became president

[@chrisc7265]

"I wrote the screenplay and no studio wanted to make it. They all said, 'we've beaten up on the president enough'." What alien world is this from?

[@TheMrSlyxx]

Am I wrong to want a reboot of this movie? I have thought of several ways to do it. 1: completely CGI Snake Pliskin as his young original self and have Kurt Russel do the voice. 2: make it an animated movie. 3. All the characters are exact look-alikes and must voice train to sound exactly like the originals. I feel like it needs the modern effects of today. SO many ideas you could add!

[@Snandra66]

I'd much rather have a brand new original movie with the spirit of movies like Escape From New York, these days studios are obsessed with remaking and rebooting just to cash in on whatever they happen to own the rights to instead of funding smaller original movies from unknown directors.

[@kendallrivers1119]

No they'd only ruin it like everything else these days.

[@drubber007]

"The very fine-looking suspense melodrama" great choice of words Vincent. Not.

[@eddiemcgrath8536]

One of cinema's great tragedies was the decline of John Carpenter movies, such a great director once.

[@KenSerpico5450]

This movie is actually prophetic in nature. Liberals, leftist, socialists and Biden's policies are already turning Manhattan into "Escape From New York".

[@maciekgutkowski8075]

Not just Manhattan ... but also San Francisco, Portland, Detroit, LA, Chicago, and many more. Many major US cities are starting to look like 3rd world African or Asian cities. Also, modern police forces look at lot like the police in this movie ... bulky dark black uniforms and armed to the teeth.

[@JuanRivera-gc7fq]

Low budget films are better

[@gkroll8467]

Escape from la was crap he crapped all over plisken not Russell crapenter

[@corstafine]

And then murders the character and franchise by turning him into some sad pastiche parody of himself in the sequel. ....for shame

[@CrossTheLine1000]

whatta mess of a movieie

[@PenguinVideoUK]

What a mess of a sentence

[@kendallrivers1119]

Why are you here then idiot?