If you like interviews like these, and if you don’t know him already, you’ll love Studs Terkel. His interviews with many different people are online at https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/.
I’ve been watching these once a day since the announcement of the re-release. These are a mixture of heart-warming and heart-breaking but they’re all very much American. The film style varies but is also very Lynchian.
These are great. I am thinking when we look back on the 21st Century one of the major artistic movements will be artists delving into the lives of everyday, working-class, non-college educated people. Lynch, clearly was ahead of the curve on this, or maybe he never didn't look at those lives. But, man after 2016 a whole lot of filmmakers, TV show runners, comedians, musicians turned their eyes that direction.
swub has a lot of interesting and "interesting" interviews ... but pretty much all of them feel rather off and off-putting to me. oddly exhibitionistical, lots of them strike me as made up bullshit by people desperately seeking attention and the guy has something uncanny valley about his "empathy". it's not totally honest like with louis theroux or others but also not fake enough to be entertaining. it's lying somewhere in between and leaves me every time with an unpleasant sensation in my stomach which is why i just can't really watch those interviews longer than 10 minutes. also he is producing them like there is no tomorrow. in short: i don't like the guy.
The video description of the first video says: ".... on October 1, 2024 to commemorate the 15 year anniversary" - so your guess seems to be pretty much spot on!
Wonderful. It's a good reminder for the urbanites who live in their own bubble... The bulk of the country (any country for that matter) is made of people like this, not celebrities and intellectuals.
