In 1968, film critic Pauline Kael weighed in on the state of the movie business in this interview with Studs Terkel. Kael had just published her second collection of reviews with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and discussed many of the opinions that she put forth in that book. At this time in film history, filmmaking was about to be revolutionized in the United States by the New Hollywood filmmakers who made their mark in the 1970s. You can tell by Kael's attitude toward the stodgy old studio system that she and the audience were ready for something new. She rips into the "creative" producers who judge a film's artistic merits based on its box office receipts. She talks about her essay in the book on the frustrating making of the movie The Group (1966), directed by Sidney Lumet. She also talks about her infamous review of The Sound of Music from the book, which got her fired at McCall's magazine. And she makes fun of that year's Academy Awards. Towards the end of the interview, Kael laments that, at the time, there were no working female directors in Hollywood. It's an exciting hour of movie opinions with one of America's best and most influential movie critics.
On the Studs Terkel Radio Archive website, it states that the year of the interview is 1966, but from the movies talked about, it is clear this was recorded in 1968. The interview is broken up into two parts, and you can listen to them each here: Part 1 and Part 2.