Pauline Kael & Woody Allen Discuss Mean Streets & The Exorcist (1974)

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Full chat here: • The Pauline Kael Show ...

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@stewartjones5624
@stewartjones5624 3 ай бұрын
This is lovely! Forgot how eloquent and insightful a film critic Woody is.
@dwmcsweeney
@dwmcsweeney 3 ай бұрын
Great clip. So grateful I grew up going to the movies in the 70’s. Such an amazing decade for the art from.
@billstrohler
@billstrohler 3 ай бұрын
One difference I noticed is that Kael is interested in what she thinks and Woody is interested in the audience reaction as well, which is a big part of making movies. Since he makes movies and she did not, I think he has a tendency to be less judgmental about whether he likes a movie and is more interested in why others may or may not like a movie.
@RobertMcEvily
@RobertMcEvily 3 ай бұрын
A perfect observation. Well said!
@TheVid54
@TheVid54 4 ай бұрын
Two greats speaking about movies in a year that saw the release of arguably the greatest film of the seventies, CHINATOWN. What a decade for the movies!
@jackrimbaud3826
@jackrimbaud3826 4 ай бұрын
Have you seen the doc Easy Riders, Raging Bulls?
@karter25
@karter25 4 ай бұрын
Chinatown was staid. A stale thriller.
@TheVid54
@TheVid54 4 ай бұрын
@@karter25 I said arguably, but would be curious to hear what your favorite films of the seventies are, unless of course, your choices are STAR WARS or ROCKY, which leaves us nothing to discuss.
@TheVid54
@TheVid54 4 ай бұрын
@@jackrimbaud3826 Yes, I saw that BBC documentary. I graduated high school in 1972, so was an active ticket buyer during those exciting times at the movies.
@LinkMarioSamus
@LinkMarioSamus 4 ай бұрын
Hey I’m also a big fan of Chinatown.
@TTM9691
@TTM9691 4 ай бұрын
HOLY SMOKES!!!!!!!! WHOAH!!! I cannot believe my freaking ears!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! Going to listen to the whole thing now! What a find!
@kategagnon839
@kategagnon839 3 ай бұрын
The way Woody Allen describes Mean Streets is actually how I felt watching Goodfellas for the first time in college.
@ApostleMan222
@ApostleMan222 3 ай бұрын
So cool to me that Mean Streets and Exorcist were in movie theaters at the same time. Outstanding
@Ryan-on5on
@Ryan-on5on 4 ай бұрын
Glad to hear both Kael and Allen saw the indelible greatness of young Marty Scorsese so early in his career. I first watched Mean Streets at age 15 and, from the very first frame of celluloid, was immediately drawn to its vivid colors, frenetic energy, exciting performances, and urban soundtrack. Here was a budding director with a bold vision of the way American cinema should be, and the chops to see through his ambition. It's a pity the film is still relatively underrated by the public, as it remains one of Marty's best!
@RawOlympia
@RawOlympia 27 күн бұрын
Hearing Woody talk about The Exorcist is surreal.
@DK-yq5nx
@DK-yq5nx 4 ай бұрын
I’ve been reading Kael for years, but I’ve never heard her speak. She has such a crisp, thoroughly assured, and very American tone. Oddly, it’s how I imagined she’d speak.
@GyntherMeyer
@GyntherMeyer 3 ай бұрын
There's a really good doc about her from 2018 where you hear her talk quite a bit. It's on dvd and streaming. Highly recommended!
@dee_seejay
@dee_seejay 3 ай бұрын
@@GyntherMeyer Ah thank you, yes, it's called _'What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael'_ [15] 2018 • 1h 35m.
@stewartjones5624
@stewartjones5624 3 ай бұрын
Same, first time I’ve ever heard her voice after decades of reading her stuff
@steveabel7066
@steveabel7066 3 ай бұрын
Fantastic! Really captures the excitement of that moment: Mean Streets as a movie that makes other movies look "creaky," and the cultural phenomenon (for better or worse) that was The Exorcist. Fun, intelligent conversation between two people who knew movies very well.
@johnsilva9139
@johnsilva9139 4 ай бұрын
This is fantastic! Pauline Kael had a show? Fifty years ago they both saw and recognized the emerging genius of both De Niro and Scorsese. Woody had not yet made "Annie Hall".
@polyglot12
@polyglot12 4 ай бұрын
This is wonderful! You can hear the excitement in Woody's tone over Scorsese. In a lot of ways he and Scorsese were the same, exploring a more naturalistic style to film that you found in the French New Wave.
@rabbitandcrow
@rabbitandcrow 4 ай бұрын
I could listen to these two talk about movies literally forever.
@handyalley2350
@handyalley2350 4 ай бұрын
Now with the power of AI your wish is granted.
@LoyalOpposition
@LoyalOpposition Ай бұрын
@@handyalley2350 AI can't do that.
@bhbluebird
@bhbluebird 4 ай бұрын
Some real classics came out in the first half of the Seventies. I like how Woody Allen has a real appreciation for Mean Streets.
@epicpotato8507
@epicpotato8507 3 ай бұрын
Mean Streets is very close to my favorite movie, seen it over 50 times memorized most the lines, me and my pal used to do scenes from the movie on the spot all the time. Best dialog ever. I discovered the movie in late 89', and thought the idea of making the dialog interesting and real more important than driving the plot was genius. The way it used and rock n roll as a soundtrack to capture the feal of the scene was the best Id seen to that point. And, then Quentin Tarantino released Reservoir Dogs and I was like, "thats what I'm talking about!" Someone else was feeling that movie like I was.
@whiplashfilms
@whiplashfilms 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for finding and putting this on here!
@Brian_Boru
@Brian_Boru 3 ай бұрын
I love how Kael calls out the corporate sub-mentals at Warner Bros and their failure to market Mean Streets because they were incapable of understanding it. Some things never change in Hollywood.
@orpheus9037
@orpheus9037 4 ай бұрын
Fascinating. The notion of Woody Allen watching The Exorcist is like worlds colliding. Kael absolutely hated it and I think she had good reason to, though in the end, the fact remains:The Exorcist is an extraordinary film. It just didn't play to Kael's instincts.
@kramalerav
@kramalerav 4 ай бұрын
John Boorman hated The Exorcist too. Is it no wonder Kael praised the sequel?
@orpheus9037
@orpheus9037 4 ай бұрын
@@kramalerav Really? I don't recall Kael's review of the sequel - I'm surprised she even bothered to look at it. God knows it got trashed everywhere as a cash-in sequel. (Which it was.) Still, Boorman is no one to sneeze at - he is a great director, though he was definitely on a roller coaster at that point in his career. He had just gotten done doing Zardoz, which bombed with both critics and audiences and likely put his career in a ditch, so likely signing on to the Exorcist sequel was a last ditch effort. He, of course went on to make a number of great films after that. (Incidentally, I thought Zardoz was a wonderfully interesting film - definitely one of the great curiosities of the 70s and now a cult film that's being rediscovered by audiences.)
@kramalerav
@kramalerav 4 ай бұрын
@@orpheus9037 Zardoz was interesting, but as I watched it, I kept wondering when Kirk, Spock and McCoy were going to beam down and set those folks straight.
@orpheus9037
@orpheus9037 4 ай бұрын
@@kramalerav The Star Trek crew is a rather G-Rated club; I think they'd be in for a shock. Recall, the futuristic commune hippies enjoyed sexually experimenting with their specimens.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
Woody appears to have liked it more than Kael, but seems sheepish about saying so, and deflecting by referring to the audience's positive reactions. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he disliked it as much as Kael did. But as a fan of both The Exorcist and Allen, I like to think he appreciated it. That said, it's a very Catholic movie, but one that was directed by a Jewish filmmaker, so I don't think it would necessarily have been alienating to Kael and Allen, and one might also argue that Mean Streets is a fairly Catholic movie, or at least one that particularly resonates with Italian-American audiences.
@steveconn
@steveconn 4 ай бұрын
Pauline and Woody, two geniuses of film in criticism of and direction. Thank you (She has a much more refined voice than I expected. Woody: "De Niro I thought was just fabulous, dynamic, like an amazing meatball sub bought on Carmine st. in the middle of the night").
@johnsilva9139
@johnsilva9139 4 ай бұрын
Great line from Woody, and probably the best description of DeNiro ever.
@steveconn
@steveconn 3 ай бұрын
@@johnsilva9139 I made it up :)
@joncumber2020
@joncumber2020 4 ай бұрын
Allen foreshadowing his own creative leaps that would soon occur.
@Vanilla_Skynet
@Vanilla_Skynet 4 ай бұрын
The full chat includes some more elaboration on Kael's part about Godard that sounds like she could be describing Woody's next 15 years, honestly
@BoxingGOATEdits
@BoxingGOATEdits 3 ай бұрын
Good point, did not make that connection. In a way, Allen was inspired by Scorsese to make masterpieces like Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanors
@swapblue
@swapblue 2 ай бұрын
@@Vanilla_Skynet where is the full chat please?
@jeffmagic32
@jeffmagic32 3 ай бұрын
Personally I love both Mean Streets and the Exorcist.
@sij809
@sij809 3 ай бұрын
"You saw that damned thing twice"😂😂😂
@gterrymed
@gterrymed 4 ай бұрын
They sound like my Upper Class friends here in Ithaca. The Upper Class social stratum has such a stoic approach to cinema and to Everything; they say nothing about Father Karras' and Regan's struggles with guilt or even the conflicts of redemption within Charlie Kappa; Kael does explore themes in her review essays; The Upper Stratum doesn't seem immersed in what's actually happening in the films. The Exorcist to Kael back than would probably be like Avatar today; the fanfare and mania are turn-offs to her.
@peteradaniel
@peteradaniel 4 ай бұрын
Actually tbh it’s more like the obvious reverence to the Catholic Church and how much of a puff piece it is. Even to me it feels old fashioned in its values.
@gterrymed
@gterrymed 4 ай бұрын
@peteradaniel just the theme of Father Karras making the ultimate sacrifice to save Regan's life; transcends the overarching Catholic precepts; Blatty named Regan after the King's middle daughter in King Lear, you can even draw literary parallels that thematically reflect and eschew tenants of the Catholic faith. interesting Peter is a New Testament name, and Daniel is an Old Testament name (Peter, the apostle and Daniel, the prophet); someone, somewhere in your family line dug The Holy Bible for you to have those names. how did your parents and grandparents react to The Exorcist? There seems to be a huge generational gap in The Exorcist's appraisal.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
I'm a big fan of Kael's writing. She's so eloquent, but I often disagreed with her. She hates a lot of my all-time favourite films, including The Exorcist, and I suspect that its hype was one of the reasons. She probably felt that us audience members were being too easily manipulated, but I agree with you that the film's poignant power comes from the risks the two priests are willing to make to save this child's soul. Even as an atheist, albeit one who was raised within the Catholic Church, the film affects me at a very emotional level.
@MicahMicahel
@MicahMicahel 3 ай бұрын
Pauline Kael had a leftist progressive bias. She thought Dirty Harry was fascist, which shows she, like leftists of today, didn't know what the term means. She probably looked at the movie as conservative, which it was. Is it really 'old fashioned' on its values? I guess if you think belief in God and the devil is 'old fashioned.' IN a way the movie is saying it's now because the movie itself wasn't filmed in an old fashioned way at all.
@travisrlel2
@travisrlel2 3 ай бұрын
Yet I would argue Mean Streets is a raw and visceral film where Exorcist looks slick and expensive. Mean Streets is steeped in catholicism. It is about religious guilt, responsibility and redemption (or the lack thereof). "You don't pay for your sins in the church. You do it in the streets. Everything else is bullshit and you know it."
@BobMori
@BobMori 4 ай бұрын
An early 1974 podcast. Thanks 🎬
@EastSide-qc5oy
@EastSide-qc5oy 3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I mean talk radio really was the original podcast. Hell, radio was the original television, too.
@dantesebastian1777
@dantesebastian1777 3 ай бұрын
It's easy to see why Pauline Kael had so many admirers (The Paulettes). Regardless if you agree or disagree with her, she's absolutely fascinating to listen to and she speaks her mind, regardless of how beloved a movie is. She called "The Sound of Music" the "Sound of Mucus" and "Love Story" "Camille with Bullshit". How can you not love her? And that voice is like velvet.
@postmodernrecycler
@postmodernrecycler 3 ай бұрын
See, this is why I am a Paulette. I don't really care if she agrees with my taste; it's her bull-in-a-china-cabinet writing that is hilarious, clever, and insightful. Sometimes it's fun to discover she hated or loved a certain movie.
@edfelstein3891
@edfelstein3891 3 ай бұрын
Pauline Kael thought Exorcist 2 was better than The Exorcist. 'Nuff said.
@g-unit7625
@g-unit7625 3 ай бұрын
Agree. I thought PK was the embodiment of critical snobbery.
@travisrlel2
@travisrlel2 3 ай бұрын
Actually Scorsese preferred Exorcist 2 over 1.
@kamuelalee
@kamuelalee 4 ай бұрын
Great post, thank you!
@jlg5967
@jlg5967 4 ай бұрын
Can't believe Woody watched a horror film.
@jons.105
@jons.105 3 ай бұрын
Twice!!
@steveb6093
@steveb6093 3 ай бұрын
Yeah usually he likes to be the one creating fear, coz y’know, he’s a pedo
@raycarr1389
@raycarr1389 2 ай бұрын
Really appreciated hearing this interview. Nice to see that Woody actually saw both Mean Streets and The Exorcist. As a filmmaker, he saw two of the best films of the 70's by two other genius filmmakers. Sorry to know that false accusations that haven't been proven, destroyed the career of such a talented man, one of the smartest writer,directors ever involved in the creation of movie making.
@nicknoga564
@nicknoga564 4 ай бұрын
The key word here is ‘indulgent.’
@EdMannonPercussion
@EdMannonPercussion 4 ай бұрын
😂
@johnnewton4461
@johnnewton4461 3 ай бұрын
😅😅😅 Kael could use a large sock filled with manure
@nicknoga564
@nicknoga564 3 ай бұрын
@@johnnewton4461 I happen to have Marshall McLuhan RIGHT HERE...
@scatmancrothers
@scatmancrothers 4 ай бұрын
This is brilliant. Great find
@GeoffNelson
@GeoffNelson 4 ай бұрын
Very interesting piece of audio.
@iasonb10
@iasonb10 3 ай бұрын
This is utterly fascinating
@nolagospeltracts8264
@nolagospeltracts8264 4 ай бұрын
Love the way PK talks.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
She sounds like she writes, if that makes sense.
@delmofritz3964
@delmofritz3964 3 ай бұрын
She sounds like Margret Atwood.
@gandhiangles3213
@gandhiangles3213 Ай бұрын
He is correct that the scenes in The Exorcist were shocking vs. frightening.
@SpoilerMasterPodcast
@SpoilerMasterPodcast 3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this! Is there more where that came from?
@calevbd
@calevbd 4 ай бұрын
Here you have the strength and weakness of Kael's criticism. When she loves a good film, such as `Mean Streets', Kael is incredibly perceptive about its qualities. But when a film doesn't speak to her, such as `The Exorcist,' she becomes almost entirely dismissive of it, even its undeniable positive features. Another problem is her assumption that mass audiences share her taste; Woody is correctly skeptical that the downbeat `Mean Streets' would have been the hit that Kael believes it could have been had the studio marketed it better.
@xpindy
@xpindy 4 ай бұрын
No doubt she had those flaws, but we are worse off for the lack of critics like her.
@lysanderofsparta3708
@lysanderofsparta3708 4 ай бұрын
I agreed with her 100% about both movies.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
@@xpindy 100%. Even when I disagreed with Kael's overall opinion, I always found her writing to be witty, eloquent and highly evocative. Every time I read one of her reviews, I feel immersed back into the film being written about.
@brentsobie3977
@brentsobie3977 3 ай бұрын
The irony in Kael's take is that the genius of Mean Streets for it's modernity - for which she is spot on - being overlooked by the studios and particularly Warner's, she herself was guilty of regarding The Exorcist. For not realizing and quite frankly overlooking the exponential potential off the film's novelty or even newness, as well as the groundbreaking effects, Kael corners herself, trapped in the vagueness of its lengthy development, characterizing the expressed emotion of the film as derivative shock value. Like Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist spawned the modern generation of horror, freeing it's genre from the antiquated tropes of the 1930s monster movies as well as the later 1950s stale and cheaply made sci-fi doctrine. The emergence of horror - one of the most popular genres to this day, owes it's roots and foundations to these groundbreaking films - something apparently oblivious to Kael.
@lysanderofsparta3708
@lysanderofsparta3708 3 ай бұрын
@@brentsobie3977 She wasn't oblivious to the emergence of modern horror movies; she just didn't like them. She did make a few positive comments about "Night of the Living Dead", the first zombie apocalypse movie -- even though she didn't particularly enjoy that either.
@grantc61
@grantc61 3 ай бұрын
This is an amazing post, thank you. After reading and loving Pauline Kael's work for many years I'm not at all surprised to hear the conviction and authority in her opinions. It's a bit of a shame that she interrupts and talks over Woody so much - Small Woman Syndrome, perhaps?
@moviola12
@moviola12 4 ай бұрын
Great stuff
@JohnMoseley
@JohnMoseley 4 ай бұрын
Fascinating to hear them discuss Mean Streets like this. Allen's comment that its modernity made even impressive recent films look 'creaky'. Makes you realise just how new this style was, though I note that a few similarly uncreaky movies predated it: Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail ('73) and The Long Goodbye ('73), spring to mind. And Cassavetes. Scorsese had worked with Cassavetes, a pioneer of the free-flowing, near documentary style of Mean Streets, and gave Scorsese the needed push to make this movie. Scorsese had just previously made Boxcar Bertha for a Hollywood studio. Cassavetes watched Boxcar Berth and said, Marty: you've just spent a year of your life making a perfectly acceptable commercial piece of shit, and you can have a fine career doing just that. Or you can go it alone and try to do something that matters to you. And Scorsese said, 'I've been thinking a lot about these guys I grew up with...'
@cheekylix
@cheekylix 3 ай бұрын
They talked about the long goodbye in the longer audio, and kael was so mad that woody thought it was an "alright" film.
@JohnMoseley
@JohnMoseley 3 ай бұрын
@@cheekylix I'd like to hear that. I bloody love that film.
@timty8224
@timty8224 3 ай бұрын
Great list! Every one of these superb films really supports your point.
@JohnMoseley
@JohnMoseley 3 ай бұрын
@@timty8224 🙂 Thanks!
@postmodernrecycler
@postmodernrecycler 3 ай бұрын
I love Mr. Scorsese mostly for his prodigious love of and restoration of film history, but Hal Ashby and Cassavetes will always be more interesting filmmakers to me. Regardless, all three were onto something.
@nadagabri5783
@nadagabri5783 3 ай бұрын
Notice how Woody doesn’t put down the exorcist down, where the woman does. The exorcist is a good movie and stands the test of time to this very day..
@tomfrankiewicz4030
@tomfrankiewicz4030 3 ай бұрын
Mean Streets is one of my all time favorite movies
@MrUndersolo
@MrUndersolo 3 ай бұрын
Great to find this here...and to realize that Kael was not the biggest fan of Woody's films, but they could still meet and talk with each other.
@SpoilerMasterPodcast
@SpoilerMasterPodcast 3 ай бұрын
She did love THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, though, and wrote a beautiful review of it.
@literallyunderrated
@literallyunderrated 3 ай бұрын
I love both movies. But they dont mention John Cassavettes “Shadows” which was a big influence on Mean Streets
@briancox9357
@briancox9357 3 ай бұрын
Great film.
@kmlgraph
@kmlgraph 4 ай бұрын
Woody is nothing like his on-screen persona. He is highly intelligent and creative and one of the best film makers of his generation. He made over 60 movies in his career, all from his own screenplays! Too bad he screwed up (figuratively and literally) his legacy.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
I think his onscreen persona is fairly intelligent for the most part. I just hope the worst accusations/rumours about Allen aren't true.
@milesflanagan4899
@milesflanagan4899 3 ай бұрын
How did he screw up his legacy. He’s still making pretty good films.
@lysanderofsparta3708
@lysanderofsparta3708 3 ай бұрын
@@milesflanagan4899 I think the reference is to his personal life.
@milesflanagan4899
@milesflanagan4899 3 ай бұрын
@@lysanderofsparta3708 He lives a very quiet personal life with his wife. Can’t see what the problem with that is or whose business that is, other than his and his wife’s.
@lysanderofsparta3708
@lysanderofsparta3708 3 ай бұрын
@@milesflanagan4899 Tell that to Mia Farrow.
@TheAerovons
@TheAerovons 4 ай бұрын
Moronic. The Exorcist is one of greatest films ever made.
@TheIndependentLens
@TheIndependentLens 3 ай бұрын
Agree!
@raindrops21_9
@raindrops21_9 3 ай бұрын
100%
@larsliljeblad800
@larsliljeblad800 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely. The Exorcist is a masterpiece! One of the greatest films ever made.
@agathaellajadwiszczok9840
@agathaellajadwiszczok9840 5 күн бұрын
I saw it last Halloween. It was so slow! There is a ton of material involving the priest and his mom and visits to the nuthouse before you get to the possession scenes (what the audience is actually there for!)
@TheAerovons
@TheAerovons 5 күн бұрын
@@agathaellajadwiszczok9840 The adults came to see an excellent story, which had been a long an detailed hit novel. The demon used his guilt over his Mom during the exorcism, in case you missed it lol
@JC-jr9hw
@JC-jr9hw 2 ай бұрын
This is great to listen to…back before art was completely taken over by corporate consolidation, and before tastes were systematically lowered to pathetic levels.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
Considering how much Allen admired De Niro's performance here, I'm surprised he never worked with him. I wonder if he ever reached out/tried to cast him in anything.
@johnayres1819
@johnayres1819 3 ай бұрын
I believe Allen considered De Niro for the role of the lounge singer in 'Broadway Danny Rose'.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
@@johnayres1819 That would have been fantastic. I can see De Niro playing the Chazz Palminteri character from Bullets Over Broadway if say that film had been made a decade or so earlier.
@XFLexiconMatt
@XFLexiconMatt 4 ай бұрын
I realize that Kael would be agast, but while I recognize the historical importance of Godard's "Breathless", I didn't connect with it, mostly because the lead character was too unlikable for me to connect with it. I connected more with Jean Cocteau dilms or Bergman films. Yes, I know scandalous.
@irish66
@irish66 4 ай бұрын
"While I recognize the historical importance of Godard's "Breathless", I didn't connect with it," Me Neither. For me in terms of Quality. It's mean Streets, Then The Exorcist, them Breathless.
@kevinlang9792
@kevinlang9792 4 ай бұрын
Call me a plebe, but I prefer the early 80's version of Breathless. Richard Gere was much sexier and more likeable than his French counterpart.
@irish66
@irish66 4 ай бұрын
@@kevinlang9792 Belmondo probably wasn't meant to be likeable.
@delmofritz3964
@delmofritz3964 3 ай бұрын
100% agree. The Belmondo character was a complete ass. Totally unsympathetic in every way and he treated Seberg like crap.
@MegaAtomium
@MegaAtomium 4 ай бұрын
I want more of this. Someone PLEASE go and dig her up! haha
@artlover1477
@artlover1477 4 ай бұрын
Gee, seems like The Exorcist was an after thought for these two. Great discussions though. And yes, Mean Streets has stood the test of time.
@wungabunga
@wungabunga 3 ай бұрын
I suspect the Exorcist was seen as schlocky by a certain class of film reviewer. Now of course we know it’s a stone cold classic. All these years and I still haven’t watched Mean Streets. Woody said it was modern but for my generation it had virtually no relevance right up until Goodfellas came out - when it was mentioned a lot. I will watch it this week.
@djbennett900
@djbennett900 3 ай бұрын
Mean Streets is still my favorite Scorsese. So this conversation is important. It had everything, from gangsters and violence and music to William Blake. Never seen another film quite so thrilling and fulfilling. The Exorcist isn’t a bad film either.
@MichaelLuke-w6p
@MichaelLuke-w6p 3 ай бұрын
Scorsese is the master❤and the exorcist is the greatest horror movie made🧟
@FrancoisDressler
@FrancoisDressler 4 ай бұрын
Wow!
@habovay3
@habovay3 4 ай бұрын
Oddly, Kael's voice is very similar to Ellen Burstyn's. If I didn't know it was Pauline Kael I was hearing discuss The Exorcist, I'd just assume it was Burstyn. As for Woody's assessment of The Exorcist, I don't see how both his audiences could be let down by the first hour. Never in the film's 51-year history (not counting millennials or Gen Z'ers) have I heard, seen, or read one complaint of the film's pace. Sure, I've heard some say it isn't scary (as Woody did) but never that it's slow.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
No, I personally buy that argument. I'm not saying I necessarily agree, but any audience member looking to be 'horrified' is going to have to wait for over an hour to feel sated. It's a great film but a bit of a slowburner from a genre POV. That's arguably what makes it so great. Despite Kael's dismissal of it, it's not mindless generic pap. It's a fairly thoughtful movie.
@TRINZINI
@TRINZINI 3 ай бұрын
Depends ... I personally think that, had William Peter Blatty and Friedkin not been such good friends (as is revealed in Friedkin's wonderful biography THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION), Friedkin would have probably insisted on writing the useless LJ Cobb cop character out of the script, be it only for pacing reasons. I mean, really, EVERY scenes with him are pointless, slow and bring the story to a screeching halt. Worst thing is : even his badly timed arrival at the end of the film is totally unnecessary and he's just left standing in Regan's room, wondering what the hell just happened (while the viewer wonders what the hell is HE doing there !) Someone should eventually make a homemade edit of the film WITHOUT the LJ Cobb's scenes. I'm sure nobody would notice his disappearance ;)
@habovay3
@habovay3 3 ай бұрын
@TRINZINI I disagree about the Kinderman character (his interrogation scene with Bustyn is a master class in tension). I am with you, however, when it comes to him and the film's climax. Is his untimely arrival (especially that late at night) because he now suspects Regan to be Burke's murderer? Or was he just curious because he once again was staked out across the street and couldn't help noticing the Pink Floyd light show emanating from Regan's bedroom? And what was his follow-up to the fact that two priests are now dead (one having perished in the same manner as Burke)? I can't remember if these conclusions were addressed in the novel because I read it way back in 1981.
@raindrops21_9
@raindrops21_9 3 ай бұрын
@@GregOrCreg The thing is, without the 'slow' and careful set up - the time taken to build the characters, you don't become invested in the story. It is precisely because we know and care about these people that the 'horror' that unfolds later has as much impact as it does. These aren't throw away characters that scary things happen to, they are real and have substance - the trauma is experienced by us as much as it is by them. And that's why the film continues to haunt you, or at least provoke thought, long after you've left the cinema.
@wungabunga
@wungabunga 3 ай бұрын
@@TRINZINII wonder if he was useful as a character outside of the madness? Bringing the material world back into the story.
@SUK2293
@SUK2293 4 ай бұрын
Woody Allen's version of Mean Streets was Manhattan...
@hoibsh21
@hoibsh21 3 ай бұрын
Movie quality has gone so far down over the years. NOw we're in the pits.
@NolanSullivan-d8v
@NolanSullivan-d8v 3 ай бұрын
Title of the video sounds like a cinephilic fever dream
@mooville32
@mooville32 3 ай бұрын
My and my friends snuck into the drive in to see it. Double feature with Lepke
@foureyes5878
@foureyes5878 3 ай бұрын
Kael walked down several mean streets when it came to Barbara Streisand. She was incredibly mean to Babs. She got personal where she even criticized Babs' looks.
@Kjt853
@Kjt853 3 ай бұрын
She treated Streisand pretty much the same way she treated Liv Ullmann. She praised them to the skies in their early films, then began knocking them.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
It's curious how respectful and friendly Kael and Allen are here because as a fan of her film writing, I know she could be quite scathing and even belittling of his work and entire character at times. That said, she was a fan of my all-time favourite Woody Allen movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo (which is also one of the few movies within Allen's ouevre that he actually likes).
@felixcat4346
@felixcat4346 3 ай бұрын
This movie hit me differently when it was released. It was excessively violent like all his movies. Paul Schraders script was the main reason of its ultimate sucess.
@xpindy
@xpindy 4 ай бұрын
I was not "raised in Little Italy" but I'll never forget going in to see Mean Streets and thinking 'Holy Shit! I know these people" even Johnny Boy who represented a very specific person person in my life. It's a remarkable acheivement, the first time I felt I saw the real world up on the screen. The Exorcist is one of the very few "horror films" that I think is actually a great film (maybe Psycho, The Shining- off the top of my head)- didn't scare me when I saw it at 17, but I don't get how adult viewers can be scared by a movie, anyway. At least not when they know it's horror and not when they know its a film. (Maybe, the open heart surgery scene in All That Jazz might frighten you if you were about to have that surgery.)
@jamals.8786
@jamals.8786 3 ай бұрын
It's so interesting that these two started out as friends but had a following out because Kael begin panning his movies.
@ryanand154
@ryanand154 3 ай бұрын
I miss public access radio.
@hotatp
@hotatp 3 ай бұрын
So cool that Woody would give such praise to another director, I have more respect for him, anyone know what kreaky means?
@badinfluence3814
@badinfluence3814 3 ай бұрын
Creaky, as in old, weary, dated.
@davedalton1273
@davedalton1273 4 ай бұрын
I liked Mean Streets, but better than The Godfather 2?! I don't think so.
@gernblanston8056
@gernblanston8056 4 ай бұрын
The one thing I got from this is that Pauline sure thinks highly of Pauline.
@garyfoster3854
@garyfoster3854 3 ай бұрын
Typical critic.
@raindrops21_9
@raindrops21_9 3 ай бұрын
Likes the sound of her own voice. I really wanted to hear Woody's thoughts, not so much hers. And anyone who dismisses The Exorcist as "that damn film" is someone who's taste is immediately suspect.
@thepaulusmaximus
@thepaulusmaximus 3 ай бұрын
@@raindrops21_9 Saw The Exorcist once and thought it was worthless. I just don't really care about the devil and God and all that crap. They pinpointed it in this interview-it is more shocking than scary. Oh by the way, my taste in film (art in general) is impeccable.
@stephenterranova8455
@stephenterranova8455 4 ай бұрын
"You saw that damn thing twice?" Jesus, if Kael were a baseball player, she'd have batted well below the Mendoza line.
@irish66
@irish66 4 ай бұрын
I want to hear more from Woody allen on movires.
@michaelmiller7160
@michaelmiller7160 3 ай бұрын
Wish this was live and could see the both of them interact. I was more bored with Mean Streets. I was hoping there would be more plot to this gangster film, but it is character-driven but not in a way I enjoyed. The Exorcist is not a film you want to see again.
@windowtrimmer8211
@windowtrimmer8211 4 ай бұрын
This is too good to be true. Must hear more. By the way: Pauline Kael’s original review of The Exorcist in The New Yorker is one of the greatest pans in the history of criticism. She nailed the loathsomeness of the film, and rejected it on grounds of fraudulence, exploitation, questionable aesthetics, and general hideousness. I remember well the hysteria surrounding the release of The Exorcist, and it was a relief at the time to read her almost comical condemnation of it.
@amafirenze-vi1uh
@amafirenze-vi1uh 4 ай бұрын
When I saw at the time I considered a sort of boring horror movie but now I revalued it and I consider The Exorcist a good movie. Not a masterpiece.
@mizzmaria5215
@mizzmaria5215 4 ай бұрын
Woody had the same cadence to his speaking voice as Tarantino.
@lysanderofsparta3708
@lysanderofsparta3708 3 ай бұрын
Tarantino isn't from Brooklyn.
@Brolo214
@Brolo214 4 ай бұрын
Sounds like studios were against Scorsese from the beginning.
@ivandesantis858
@ivandesantis858 4 ай бұрын
First of all The Exorcist is a masterpiece and William Friedkin never gave a shit about what stick in the muds like Kael had to say and she's also the same jackass that thought Clint Eastwood would never be a success. She's been dead wrong so many times I've lost count
@mgoldman60
@mgoldman60 3 ай бұрын
It looks like the movie studios eventually understood Marty S!
@swapblue
@swapblue 2 ай бұрын
where is the full conversation please?
@Vanilla_Skynet
@Vanilla_Skynet 2 ай бұрын
In the description
@brianvail9212
@brianvail9212 4 ай бұрын
Back then, mainstream film critics couldn't review horror genre movies.
@DavidCarroll-t5g
@DavidCarroll-t5g 3 ай бұрын
Kale discovered and gave accolades to McCabe and Ms Miller when no one else did.
@billyschafer8926
@billyschafer8926 3 ай бұрын
I’m not surprised that neither of them cared for The Exorcist. Unless Brian DePalma’s name was in the credits, Kael was usually dismissive of popular genre films. In her original review, she mocked The Exorcist’s earnestness, seeing it as crass pop commercialism posing as something profound. She was a notorious movie snob. I assume for a Jewish atheist like Allen, the movie’s solemn Catholicism and shock value probably seemed too hammy. Mean Streets and The Exorcist are both worthy of high praise, but for Kael and Allen to applaud Martin Scorsese’s personal vision while rebuking The Exorcist as derivative and sensationalist, is a rather superficial take. Both films are about Catholic guilt, and William Peter Blatty, who had a Catholic upbringing like Scorsese, wrote The Exorcist during a crisis of faith. William Friedkin, a secular Jew like Allen, said making the film had a deep spiritual impact on him. The Exorcist is just as personal as Mean Streets. I understand that taste is subjective, however, I think Kael and Allen deliberately ignoring The Exorcist’s exploration of transcendence and the mystery of faith is a perspective bereft of nuance.
@delmofritz3964
@delmofritz3964 3 ай бұрын
I like the Excorcist better. And Godard is a total hack. No one talks about him anymore. That said Mean Streets is a very good film and you can't go wrong with early De Niro.
@khayamayub7673
@khayamayub7673 3 ай бұрын
She had no understanding of the depth & quality of The Exorcist
@henn863
@henn863 4 ай бұрын
Oh come on, Pauline. The Exorcist is a masterpiece. She never liked genre films or horror.
@randyd7836
@randyd7836 4 ай бұрын
Kael was right. The Exoricst has great framing and editing, but the core of the movie is shocking the audience. And there's no lazier way to get a response than from shock.
@zodiac6968
@zodiac6968 4 ай бұрын
She didn't like Dirty Harry either so screw her.
@whiplashfilms
@whiplashfilms 4 ай бұрын
She was a troll sometimes. She said she preferred part 2!
@Wilson.katie815
@Wilson.katie815 4 ай бұрын
@@sg24336the story holds up over time and still today. What horror film can hold up the test of time? Boundaries and lines in the horror genre have been pushed so far. But the story telling of the Exorcist still holds up. IMO 😂 everyone’s a critic. Lol.
@georgemaranville3305
@georgemaranville3305 4 ай бұрын
@@randyd7836eh, don’t know about that. Thats with your perception of what storytelling/film is supposed to be. I can watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Manhattan back to back and with no inner conflict. No disrespect.
@JohnSmith99562
@JohnSmith99562 4 ай бұрын
She keeps cutting him off. Let the guy talk Pauline. No one gives a damn what you have to say.
@irish66
@irish66 4 ай бұрын
Meaning you don't.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
Nonsense. As big a fan of Woody Allen the *filmmaker* as I am, Pauline Kael was the one who knew how to best talk about and discuss film.
@raindrops21_9
@raindrops21_9 3 ай бұрын
Agreed - very irritating.
@JohnSmith99562
@JohnSmith99562 3 ай бұрын
@@GregOrCreg I'm trying to decide whose opinion I respect more. The genius film maker, or the random woman who likes the sound of her own voice. I'll have to think about that.
@bridgetkeyes6170
@bridgetkeyes6170 Ай бұрын
​@@JohnSmith99562Allen respected her enough to give her his time...
@OuterGalaxyLounge
@OuterGalaxyLounge 4 ай бұрын
Pauline and Woody are 100 percent right about Mean Streets. I still think it's Scorsese's best film.
@RobertH-f7z
@RobertH-f7z 3 ай бұрын
No. Taxi driver.
@thepaulusmaximus
@thepaulusmaximus 3 ай бұрын
No. Raging Bull. Goodfellas close second. Raging Bull is a modern day opera, modern day Shakespearean tragedy. It is untouchable. Goodfellas is actually the realization of the vision he had (but was too inexperienced to pull off) in Mean Streets.
@RobertH-f7z
@RobertH-f7z 3 ай бұрын
But taxi driver is the best imo
@RobertH-f7z
@RobertH-f7z 3 ай бұрын
All of what you mentioned are class but taxi driver is just a pure work of art it blows my mind
@Omnicient.
@Omnicient. 3 ай бұрын
They seem obsessed by Mean Streets. The Exorcist hardly gets a fair look in. If Kael knew so much why didn't she have big hits?! Reply
@mgoldman60
@mgoldman60 3 ай бұрын
We never heard Woody speak like this before or after.
@nonenoneonenonenone
@nonenoneonenonenone 4 ай бұрын
Kael was a good writer with great opinions and no taste at all. What she advocates for ruined the cinema, especially French cinema.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
Can you explain? I don't think you're wrong about the first part (i.e. that she's a great writer with an occasionally lousy taste in films), but I don't think she had the power to ruin cinema, esp. French cinema.
@sandrashevey8252
@sandrashevey8252 4 ай бұрын
Kael was given a chance by Warren Beatty to put her principles into practice via big job in Hollywood at Paramount or somewhere. She simply could not cut it. Others of us who never got to helm the job at the New Yorker not onlyi do damn good criticism (low paid) and also write screenplays mostly unproduced. Prefer the English critics of Kael`s time ie Houston and Mortimer.
@GregOrCreg
@GregOrCreg 3 ай бұрын
She was a brilliant film critic, which is a completely different discipline to being a great film screenplay writer.
@sandrashevey8252
@sandrashevey8252 3 ай бұрын
@@GregOrCreg I think she is a lousy film critic. She did not understand film as is proven by her inability to craft a script, to develop a project. The English crifics whom I mention by comparison were also screenwriters, producers, etc. They understood the medium.
@joeyfourpaws5594
@joeyfourpaws5594 4 ай бұрын
Pauline Kael said "Ionly know one person who voted for Nixon." Out of touch.
@isuriadireja91
@isuriadireja91 4 ай бұрын
the dismissiveness in Pauline's voice when referring to The Exorcist shows just how much she either too chicken s**t watching the movie...or she just totally missed the movie's point and thus, dismissive about it.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 4 ай бұрын
What was the point of _The Exorcist_ ?
@brentsobie3977
@brentsobie3977 3 ай бұрын
@RideAcrossTheRiver While we could debate the merits and "point" of The Exorcist, over half a century removed, what cannot be argued is the lasting effect the movie has had on both the genre itself and popular culture. It - along with Rosemary's Baby - spawned the modern generation of horror, placing the film in the ethos of literally everything that has come after, with all modern horror judged by its measure.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 ай бұрын
@@brentsobie3977 My niece called the film 'ridiculous' which I thought summed it up well.
@brentsobie3977
@brentsobie3977 3 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Kids also believe in Santa Claus, so why you'd put merit into her opinion is comical.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 ай бұрын
@@brentsobie3977 You tried REAAALLY hard to sell that mental contortion you just did there, but demons and Santa Claus: same thing. That's why the film is ridiculous. Lemme guess ... you believe Satan and demons are physically real and are at work among people.
@spb7883
@spb7883 3 ай бұрын
Mean Streets is now criminally underrated, and you can thank the criminally overrated DiCaprio-Scorsese collaborations as well as a generation unable to appreciate the 20th century for that.
@LannieLord
@LannieLord 3 ай бұрын
Weird to hear Woody talk about modern movies .
@DJ-bj8ku
@DJ-bj8ku 3 ай бұрын
When movies were worth dissecting by intelligent people.
@dannyneville1310
@dannyneville1310 3 ай бұрын
Sorry, Pauline, but The Exorcist is twice the film of the pretentious, and now very dated, Breathless.
@fredhall6525
@fredhall6525 3 ай бұрын
It's a mistake to review a horror film the same way you would review a charcter driven film.
@paulvh84
@paulvh84 4 ай бұрын
Matrix something or other??
@mst3kpimp
@mst3kpimp 4 ай бұрын
I imagine it was fashionable to poo poo popular movies and dote on underappreciated ones. oh wait, thats true of today as well.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 4 ай бұрын
Maybe not fashionable but a pattern.
@captainape6807
@captainape6807 3 ай бұрын
Shouldn't Woody be discussing "Cuties", I'm sure that's his favorite film.
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