Jean-Luc Godard
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Nov 1, 2026
Will SloanHOST
I mean, I saw somebody compare it to Alphaville somewhere, which sounds like a really pretentious comparison.
Will SloanHOST
But nevertheless, like the fact that Godard in that movie, you know, took contemporary Paris and just by changing one or two things rendered it completely strange.
Will SloanHOST
I think Meredith is doing something like that just for like rural America.
Will SloanHOST
Yeah.
Richard KnewGUEST
I
Darren JamiesonHOST
still can't get all that Jean-Luc Godard stuff.
Darren JamiesonHOST
It's not for me, that.
Darren JamiesonHOST
It's really right bollocks, it was.
Darren JamiesonHOST
What was that one in the gym as well with all the naked women? Have you seen that one? I don't know whether I've seen a Godard film all the way through.
Darren JamiesonHOST
Is it
Richard KnewGUEST
Breathless? Is that Godard with the jump cuts and the...
Richard KnewGUEST
There's a famous French film called Breathless.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then I wake up during the crash, like the midpoint crash, and I fall asleep again.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My last semester when I was a senior at UC Santa Barbara, I took a Godard class, which was literally like 12 weeks of Godard films.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it was no turning back from there.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it was problematic because the next year I was at USC, and I remember I had a teacher, and he literally said, Godard, schmudard.
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I've revisited this movie periodically throughout my life and it continually teaches me things.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To put it simply, it blew my mind.
Blaine DowlerHOST
And Best Visual Effects went to Inception, beating out Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Hereafter, and Iron Man 2.
Blaine DowlerHOST
And then the Second Annual Governor's Awards gave away honorary awards to Kevin Brownlow, for the wise and devoted chronicling of the cinematic parade, to Jean-Luc Godard for passion for confrontation for a new kind of cinema, and for Eli Wallach for a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters.
Blaine DowlerHOST
And the Irving Jean Fahlberg Memorial Award went to Francis Ford Coppola.
Blaine DowlerHOST
So films with multiple nominations.
Chloe BrailsfordGUEST
I used to.
Chloe BrailsfordGUEST
It was Frederick Wiseman's Belfast, Maine or Jean-Luc Godard's film Socialism.
Chloe BrailsfordGUEST
And then I decided that I didn't want either of those to be my best ever.
Chloe BrailsfordGUEST
But I didn't have anything to take the spot.
John BotrosGUEST
I really like Truffaut.
John BotrosGUEST
I actually prefer Truffaut to Godard.
John BotrosGUEST
Ooh,
ARBL MurrayHOST
same.
ARBL MurrayHOST
Hard same.
John BotrosGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
John BotrosGUEST
I mean, honestly, I feel like Godard is much more known for his persona than his films.
John BotrosGUEST
Like, there are only, like, three Godard films that I actually like that much.
Andreas HalskovGUEST
I think he was critical of...
Andreas HalskovGUEST
While I'm sure he didn't dislike, well, certainly Godard was important, like, cinematically, and I'm sure that Milos Forman liked some of his films, although he probably felt more closely connected to Truffaut, I would guess.
Andreas HalskovGUEST
They sort of stylistically, or in sensibility, or more closely connected, certainly.
Andreas HalskovGUEST
I think he saw some of those French New Wave, very political and radical leftists as, you know, he was critical of some of those thoughts, I think, because he thought that he was essentially trying to work his way away from a communist system, which of course, in the iteration that we saw in Czechoslovakia was deeply problematic and would include, as you mentioned, as we talked about surveillance and absolutely a limitation of freedom of expression and stuff, something that I think no artist would love So he was critical of that, and I think his son, Mateusz Forman, also mentions in the book that ultimately when he came to the U.S., he would...
Andreas HalskovGUEST
I think he was sort of a social democratic in nature, really, or a sort of a soft leftist, perhaps progressive in some ways, and certainly a humanist, but perhaps due to experiences in that part of Eastern Europe, also very critical of a communist system.
Andreas HalskovGUEST
And I don't know that...
Andreas HalskovGUEST
Godard would want a communist system, but of course he was a Marxist, at least at one point.
Andreas HalskovGUEST
I
Patrick RankinHOST
They were coming out of Europe.
Patrick RankinHOST
In France, directors like Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were making films cheaply on real streets, breaking the rules as they went.
Patrick RankinHOST
In Italy, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni were making films that moved at their own pace and left their mysteries unsolved.
Patrick RankinHOST
In December 1966, Antonioni's first English-language film opened in America.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
And the Golden Line would go to Vagetel d'Orsa by Visconti.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
And then a Jean-Luc Godard film would win the Golden Bear, Alphaville.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
A couple of fun things that happened in the year 1965, just to do a couple fun things here.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
Bloody Sunday in Selma, not great.
Dirk MarshallHOST
I don't know if you guys have seen that, but it's so good.
Dirk MarshallHOST
But in it, she tries to reconnect with Godard and he doesn't, it doesn't go.
Dirk MarshallHOST
And so I was like, well, fuck that.
Dirk MarshallHOST
I'm not going to pay any attention to this guy at all.
Ryan GowlandGUEST
I'm not a biggest fan of French new wave stuff.
Ryan GowlandGUEST
I have to say I've watched a lot of the big heavy hitters and I'm like, it's, I, it left me a little unmoved, but I felt like, you know, I wanted to, to watch a lot of it, but I haven't, I think the ones you were just talking about, I haven't seen like the Agnes Varda stuff.
Ryan GowlandGUEST
That may be where I would find more entry, but Godard stuff is, leaves me incredibly cold.
Ryan GowlandGUEST
So.
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