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Interview Re: The Actor's Studio

Susan Sontag

SUSAN SONTAG ASKS QUESTION OF NORMAN AND DIANA, TAKES ISSUE WITH BEING CALLED "LADY", SMILES

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

Interviews with film directors Agnes Varda and Susan Sontag, both among the small group of artists represented in the prestigious seventh annual New York Film Festival. (1969) They discuss their ideas and their films with Jack Kroll, senior editor at Newsweek Magazine. Excerpts from both their films illustrate the conversation. Susan Sontag is best known as a literary critic; "Duet for Cannibals" is her first film, shot on location in Sweden. Agnes Varda is a French director who shot her picture, "Lions' Love" in the United States. Varda and Sontag discuss their aesthetic and the similarities in their work: both their films concern the problems of tortured personalities, politics and the grotesque in everyday matters. 1969. An examination of the cinematographic approaches and thinking of film directors Agnes Varda and Susan Sontag, both among the small group of artists represented in the prestigious seventh annual New York Film Festival. They discuss their ideas and their films with Jack Kroll, senior editor at Newsweek Magazine. Excerpts from both their films illustrate the conversation. Varda and Sontag discuss their aesthetic and the similarities in their work: both their films concern the problems of tortured personalities, politics and the grotesque in everyday matters. Susan Sontag is best known as a literary critic; "Duet for Cannibals" is her first film, shot on location in Sweden. Agnes Varda is a French director who shot her picture, "Lions' Love" in the United States. 28:30 mins. No commercials. Produced and Directed by Merrill Brockway. Air date: 10/12/69 Agnes Varda, Filmmaker. Susan Sontag, Filmmaker, literary critic. Jack Kroll, senior editor Newsweek Magazine.

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

COVERAGE OF NEW YORK CITY. 04:00:19 VS OF BUILDINGS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, THE HUDSON RIVER AND BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE FROM THE POV OF A PERSON STANDING ON A ROOFTOP ON THE WESTSIDE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. CI: SCENICS: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.

NAME: FILE SONTAG 281204N TAPE: EF04/1260 IN_TIME: 10:21:59:18 DURATION: 00:00:54:17 SOURCES: ABC DATELINE: FILE: New York, 1993 RESTRICTIONS: No Access internet SHOTLIST: 1. Various of authoress Susan Sontag on Manhattan rooftop 2. Sontag at desk reading book 3. Various of Sontag book covers 4. More of Sontag reading 5. Sontag on top of building STORYLINE: Susan Sontag, the American author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died on Tuesday. She was 71. Sontag died at 7:10 a.m. on Tuesday, said Esther Carver, a spokeswoman for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in Manhattan. Her son, David Rieff, said the cause was complications stemming from acute myelogenous leukaemia, one of the deadliest forms of leukaemia. Sontag had been treated for breast cancer in the 1970s. Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete," an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness." She wrote a best-selling historical novel, "The Volcano Lover," and in 2000 won the National Book Award for the historical novel "In America." But her greatest literary and cultural impact was as an essayist. Her 1964 piece, "Notes on Camp," which established her as a major new writer, popularised the "so bad it''s good" attitude towards popular culture. In "Against Interpretation," this most analytical of writers worried that critical analysis interfered with art''s "incantatory, magical" power. Sontag was deeply involved in politics and from 1987-89, she served as president of the American chapter of the writers organisation PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists). When the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for Salman Rushdie''s death because of the alleged blasphemy of Rushdie''s "The Satanic Verses," Sontag helped lead protests in the literary community. She campaigned relentlessly for human rights and visited Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, calling for international action against the civil war which was erupting there. In 1993, she went to Sarajevo and staged a production of "Waiting for Godot."

THE WRITINGS OF SEVERAL FOREIGN WRITERS WHO HAVE EXPRESSED SOCIALIST OR COMMUNIST LEANINGS, ARE READ BY AMERICAN AUTHORS IN PROTEST. READINGS OF FOREIGN WRITERS BY SUSAN SONTAG.