Germaine Greer: Playboy Interview (1972)
06/02/2021
A candid conversation with the ballsy author of “The female Eunuch”
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Hunter Thompson: Playboy Interview (1974)
29/01/2021
A freewheeling conversation with the outlaw journalist and only man alive to ride with both Richard Nixon and the Hell’s Angels
Ingmar Bergman: A Conversation with Ann Morrissett
22/12/2020
This is quite unusual, you know. We were in the elevator of the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Theatre, Bergman’s secretary (male) and I. In the elevator, going up, I was having my position made clear. You are very fortunate. Mr. Bergman is seeing no one these days while his play is in rehearsal. . .
A Trip to Don Quixoteland: Conversations with Orson Welles
21/12/2020
I think about each of my films when I am preparing for them. I do an enormous sketch when starting. What is marvelous about the cinema, what makes it superior to the theatre, is that it has many elements that may conquer us but may also enrich us, oiler us a life impossible anywhere else.
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LYNCH, DIRECTOR OF “DUNE”
12/09/2020
The filmmaker who tamed “The Elephant Man” undertakes the grandest vision of them all—the realization on the screen of the epic universe created by Frank Herbert.
INTERVIEW WITH PAULINE KAEL (MODERN MATURITY)
03/07/2020
Pauline Kael has brought the same fierce passion, independence, and incisiveness to her movie reviews since she took on Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight in 1952. When her first book, I Lost It at the Movies (1965), and her 1968 appointment as a movie critic for The New Yorker brought her national prominence, some people raised eyebrows, others glasses, to her revolutionary style.
“I STILL LOVE GOING TO MOVIES”- AN INTERVIEW WITH PAULINE KAEL (1999)
01/07/2020
Pauline Kael is a singular voice in the history of American film criticism. Cineaste interviewed Kael in the summer of 1999, discussing her critical career and early influences, her philosophy of criticism, great American films of the Seventies, her thoughts about retirement, and her provocative views on some recent American movies.
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW WEIL (1986)
09/06/2020
The following interview was originally conducted by Jack Loeffler for a radio series entitled Southwest Sound Collage, distributed to public radio stations around the United States beginning in 1986.
Bertrand Russell: Playboy Interview (1963)
26/04/2020
If the long and stormy life of Bertrand Arthur Russell can be said to possess any unifying thread, it is an enduring attitude of passionate skepticism, a lifelong refusal to accept any truth as immutable, any law as infallible or any faith as sacred.
MARK ZUCKERBERG & YUVAL NOAH HARARI IN CONVERSATION [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
15/03/2020
Mark Zuckerberg hosts Yuval Noah Harari for a conversation about some big challenges as part of the Facebook CEO’s 2019 series of public discussions about the future of technology in society. The overarching question they debate is: what are we going to do about the systemic problems of the current technological revolution?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE MAN WHO SCANDALIZED THE WORLD
23/12/2019
One of the more diverting aspects of Lolita, the most controversial best seller of the century, has been the considerable speculative curiosity about the private life and personality of Vladimir Nabokov, the virtually unknown university professor who now, at the age of sixty-one, finds himself world famous as the author of this nettlesome novel.
Chaplin Interviewed by Richard Meryman (1966)
09/12/2019
In 1966, Chaplin granted several extensive interviews to journalist Richard Meryman for a Life magazine article to promote ‘A Countess from Hong Kong.’ Only a small portion of Meryman’s taped interviews was ever published. A copy of the complete transcript, from which this excerpt was taken, is preserved in the Chaplin Archives.
Stanley Kubrick Interview – by Joseph Gelmis
06/11/2019
A director is a kind of idea and taste machine; a movie is a series of creative and technical decisions, and it’s the director’s job to make the right decisions as frequently as possible. Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
Jerry Seinfeld: Playboy Interview (1993)
27/10/2019
A candid conversation with Jerry Seinfeld, TV’s top-rated comic, about the important things: sneakers, masturbation, dating teenagers and making a hit show about nothing
Anne Rice: Playboy Interview (1993)
26/10/2019
A candid conversation with the author of The Vampire Chronicles about sex and violence, gays and bloodsuckers, and her helpful fans from the S&M scene
Bill Cosby: Playboy Interview (1985)
15/10/2019
A candid conversation with America’s superdad Bill Cosby, about his revolutionary true-to-life comedy series—and about racism, kids, humor and heroes
Kathy Griffin: Laugh Your Head Off | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) – Transcript
21/08/2019
Comedian Kathy Griffin joins Bill Maher to discuss her time in exile and her return to the stage.
Yuval Noah Harari: “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” | Talks at Google [Full Transcript]
07/07/2019
Yuval Noah Harari, macro-historian, Professor, best-selling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, and one of the world’s most innovative and exciting thinkers, discusses his newest work, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
Jordan Peterson on the True Meaning of Life
07/07/2019
Jordan Peterson, professor, author, influential thought leader, and philosophical phenomenon, explores the true meaning of life.
Interview: Jordan Peterson and Dennis Prager at the 2019 PragerU summit – Full Transcript
23/06/2019
Dennis Prager interviews Jordan Peterson at the 2019 PragerU summit.
Ben Shapiro: The Entitlement Generation
01/06/2019
Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shaprio weighs in on the entitlement generation on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’