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Originally Posted by dissention
I just recently browsed this place for the first time in ages and didn't think it would be polite to download these without saying thanks, David. I've never heard this, so it should be great fun to listen to. Since you were in the sharing mood, I'm not sure if you've heard these, but they're worth listening to if you haven't.
Kael's talk at the San Fernando Valley State College, 1963, 55 minutes: http://www.sendspace.com/file/591h2h
Mostly about the auteur theory and Andrew Sarris' 1962 essay on it. A bit of it is the same as "Circles and Sqaures," though. She's in top form and her bite is at it's most wicked. I've always pictured Sarris' skin crawling at the mere sound of her voice; something along the lines of what my skin does when I read him. "Citizen Sarris: American Film Critic" has a silly but still oddly worthwhile essay on Kael vs. Sarris, though it's a bit difficult to slog through all of the ass-kissing sent in Sarris' direction, even if it is a book all about him.
The Johnson Library at Hampshire College here in Massachusetts has Kael's personal library and the first time I went to browse it, I almost lost it when I went through some of the books and looked at the comments & markings she had written in them over the years. She had Sarris' 'The American Cinema" and wrote "nonsense" in it after he wrote that westerns shy away from satire & parody.
Kael criticizing Pacifica Radio and it's listeners on-air, two broadcasts, 1962, 16 minutes: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ro9144
More of a novelty than anything, but it's guaranteed to eke out a few chuckles, especially the second broadcast. |
Far out! You're back for a visit!! Avoid the sevenwonders board at all costs. It'll chew you up & spit you out, as it did me.
Thanks for uploading these additional Kael pieces. I actually have them on CD but I really enjoy them. I have some more Kael, including a radio show entitled "What's Happened to Film Criticism?" recorded March 12, 1963 & another radio show about film since World War II, plus a show she was guest on for a group of college writers at some Southern university, where the kids ask her questions.
I saw Kael speak only once -- at UCLA in 1986 to a sold-out audience -- but I'd like to hear a tape of that show.