Zabriskie Point Interview

Zabriskie Point Interview

[@jackthelad2691]

Incredible film, way ahead of it's time

[@BradGryphonn]

I loved the 70s. If you were over 10 and under 35, you were probably tripping at some point.

[@spudwas]

More like the tail end of the 60's to be more accurate.

[@BabyFaceBren]

ha ha, I was 12 in 1973 and tripping on aerosol record cleaner. Explains a lot about my later years.

[@spicecrop]

Mel Brooks next to the walking dead , hilarious.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Watching this interview reminds me of a line from the movie: I'm willing to die....of boredom

[@mitkoinhitko]

Clearly this was before actors received any kind of media training. Today nobody gets away with selling out their own film like that.

[@silverkitty2503]

and its so much better

[@LordGreystoke]

Yeah but Frechette expressed the attitude of his generation, which is to tell the truth and not be lied to. Very authentic

[@LawrenceCarroll1234]

I enjoyed this Dick Cavett episode for the same reasons I enjoyed all of them that I saw. He indeed was - and is - a great host and interviewer. That these two were so different just makes it interesting in a different way, like how Herbie Hancock describes the way Miles Davis approached unexpected in “mistakes” while playing (they are not mistakes at all if you don’t resist them). Anyway, I loved the movie - err, “film” - they were in too!

[@JPFilmables]

i appreciate the honesty

[@evavoy]

no wonder the film did poorly in those days with such media promotion.

[@azluan]

Daria is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my whole life.

[@silverkitty2503]

hair does a lot

[@jamesebola1250]

Still, one of my favorite films.

[@frazz297]

I feel like there's a serious case of generation gap at play here: the older generation who always had to be 'on' vs the younger generation who wanted to drop the shtick and speak their minds.

[@LordGreystoke]

Can you post more of this interview? Does it exist? It certainly didn't end here.

[@timstamps5281]

Where's the rest of the interview? Daria started to talk then got cut off. Dick promised to come back after the commercial when she had an opportunity to collect her thoughts.

[@OleJoe]

Cute pretty girl, weird guy, great film.

[@eskimospy2]

This all that I have. It is all that is in circulation... maybe all that exists?

[@omarshakarchi1394]

Gotta Love Mel Brooks

[@uttaradit2]

they aint playing the tv game here ....dig

[@uttaradit2]

the painted plane was the tru star

[@corocotelumumba6645]

Wow, the most painful interview I 've ever seen. What couple of idiots. Mel Brooks and Cavett were in total disbelief...

[@uttaradit2]

who were the real ijiots ?

[@datsnuffydude5460]

Mel was totally leaning in to kiss Daria! Nevertheless, Mel, you are, and always will be, my idol! Watching this takes me back to my pre-teen years. My dad refused to watch Johnny Carson (called him a “qu**r”…didn’t know what that meant until I was in my teens), so we watched TDCS, or I did when got to stay up late. Dick Cavett was so different than any host seen in the past 50+ years. The dry humor you’d expect from a Yaley trying to get a reaction from smug anti-hero types, able to stand toe-to-toe intellectually with anyone. Don’t know how well Dick would compare now with today’s talk show hosts, but he sure was great in his day.

[@awayspa4511]

so wacky

[@shantihealer]

Mark seems a troubled character, intense, very interesting. But Daria, such a beautiful soul, was trampled over and ignored. Far too many out of control egos here. What we got was tantalizing glimpses and virtually nothing of the beautiful Daria.

[@rumpraisin]

What's the (Zabriskie) point of this film?

[@TheTmny876able]

the ending

[@albertvangestal3696]

There is no point. The whole thing was to point out pointlessness of it all.....that was the whole point. I grew up with my parents raving about this film when I was a child in the early 1970. I have seen it a few times and ever time I sit through it it's a depressing and empty experience.

[@rumpraisin]

@@albertvangestal3696 I can identify with the main character in some ways. He gets fed up with endless student debates about politics that seem to get nowhere and decides to head off and do his own thing.

[@beauvignol]

La jeune femme ne parle que quelques secondes. Elle garde un aire intimidé. Elle veut parler et, cha

[@Johnconno]

Far out man.

[@dbldnii]

and now they us tighten up our bootstraps or something like that. give us more acid and we might consider it

[@victoroladuja2416]

They can’t even be bothered to plug their own movie how ungrateful.

[@nikobellic339]

It’s an attempted middle finger to the system. The capitalist machine that is talk shows. Read a book

[@reddash358]

@@nikobellic339 Or maybe they just don’t care and they didn’t like how the movie turned. Communism isn’t the answer.

[@deanpd3402]

@@nikobellic339 I read a book, it's called The Gulag Archipeligo. Solzhenitsyn's middle finger to the psychopaths in the Soviet Union.

[@richardsimons6978]

​@@deanpd3402 Your first book no doubt. Now go back to your talk shows!

[@stanwallet]

Cavett and others blame the guests for this interview going awry but Cavett, along with Brooks, need to take all the responsibility. After the initial discussion with Mark was awkward, Cavett should have directed his question about how the film came out specifically to Daria. She obviously had something to say. And never command someone who is evidently uncomfortable in a situation to 'talk... say something'. It wasn't witty or funny, rather it revealed a colossal ignorance on the part of Brooks about how to extract interesting information from a guest. Cavett pathetically tried to score a few laughs by mocking Daria's nervousness instead of following up with relevant questions. Is asking a guest where they are from the best Cavett could do? Rex Reed asks a good question about working with Antonioni, which should have been followed up only with Daria after she had given an intriguing response and an opening to further explore the subject. A missed opportunity.

[@THX-C]

Mark, if you would had the ability to act, Antonioni might have achieved what you wanted. Never had that problem with Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, or Marcello Mastroianni. Instead, we got you and Commune Girl who would end up marrying Dennis Hopper! Lesson: never use hippies!

[@disconnected22]

Completely agree. I CAN’T STAND his performance in Zabriskie. He was cast because he was young and angry, that’s it. And I believe he was dead within a decade...

[@robindro1961]

I thought he fit perfectly! The frustration and estrangement from romantic ideals of the hippies, while still paying hommage to it in a way, were what the movie was all about. Ultimately the fail of that peaceful movement resulted in the capitalistic materialism embetted in a kind of poststructuralism we have today

[@lawsonj39]

@@robindro1961 Exactly.

[@jeffs869]

wow, the host really lived up to his name! he could be a little less sarcastic with these young, inexperienced, nervous youngsters. okay their tripping balls but you could give daria a chance to babble along with her co star. and Mel isnt much of a ad libber.

[@wayofthehike]

These two are so arrogant and annoying. Mark died a few years later in prison when a 150 lb barbell fell on his neck.

[@datsnuffydude5460]

Bank robbery, I believe?

[@wayofthehike]

@@datsnuffydude5460 yes. He tried to rob a bank to get funds to finance a movie. Got caught, went to prison, then the barbell on the neck…

[@michaelcapeless3268]

"Fell" on his neck...

[@wayofthehike]

@@michaelcapeless3268 exactly!

[@LyonThroy-RSA]

Maybe he had some dirt on a young Hillary?

[@beauvignol]

Elle veut parler et se fait interrompre à chaque fois. Vive le machisme !

[@man66iac]

Film good, but for me this film doesn't make sense

[@manciano2009]

Zabrieskie Point is a vivid portrait of America, of the feelings of the time, of the estetics of capitalism, of the dream of a different society, and the final failure of the dream.

[@mstwilight1612]

@@manciano2009 true. And still America is killing everyone sendings weapons to terrorists and nazis

[@lopezenrique750]

Loved the Pink Floyd part. But oh man... these actors are actually painful to watch be interviewed. No wonder the film bombed. Who would want to watch these uncharismatic losers for an hour and some change? No way bro

[@geneva50]

Wooden acting, wooden interviewees. Worst film, Zabriskie Point. No wonder they had nothing good to say about it.

[@steveburton9242]

It was an amazing film, despite some glaring flaws

[@georget.7348]

The great Rex Reed said it best in his book: "There is only one thing more boring than watching an Antonioni movie and that it INTERVIEWING ANTONIONI". I am from Cuba and we got a lot of his movies, I think the first one was "Il grido", then came the others "La notte", "L' eclisse", "L' Avventura", "Il Deserto Rosso". They were all BORING. In order to complete my knowledge of this famous director, I have seen in the US two we didn't get in Cuba "Blow Up" and just last night "Zabriskie Point". I have a more critical, more mature, more knowledgeable way of thinking now and I can say with confidence that his films are "A CRUSHING BORE". Poor Monica Vitti, his actress and for a short while his wife, no wonder she left him and started making comedy beginning with "Nina Tirabuscio, the women who invented the shake".

[@rbrookswilliams1689]

Antonioni films are just like life; 90% boring, 10% terror.