Jean-Luc Godard's Critique of American Filmmaking | The Dick Cavett Show

Jean-Luc Godard reveals the financial constraints of filmmaking, noting that art and economy are intertwined and that significant investment is often needed to capture the true essence of events like the Vietnam War.
Date aired - October 23 1980 - Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard’s English isn’t good enough to convey all his ideas clearly, but from what I can understand, he seems pretty interesting.

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I think part of the problem in understanding JLG is that his ideas are based in continental philosophy, and that kind of talk goes straight over smart people’s heads, let alone the average American watching Dick Cavett.

[@TheStockwell]

Of course, the collaboration with Coppola mentioned at the beginning of this interview never happened. It was "a failed effort to make a Bugsy Siegel movie called The Story, with Francis Ford Coppola producing and Diane Keaton attached as one of the leads." Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

[@Czechbound]

I was lucky to see his "Alphaville" and "Pierrot Le Feu" over a couple of evenings at Prague French Film Festival. Just fantastic ! The master !

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“But this space is ugly soooo…” 😂

[@thecommonsensecapricorn]

He was always just the fucking coolest, up to assisted suicide as his grand finale… what a fascinating and totally unique individual.

[@warrenrudkin5277]

American film = at least one car chase with loud ‘music’

[@clash5j]

I always found him more interesting as a personality rather than as a filmmaker

[@RegenerativeHomes]

I was thinking just the opposite, but I find most directors to be narcissistic bores (it's possible to be both) when interviewed.

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Talk about someone who uses his personality as a form of birth control.

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[@smsm4356]

Dick is so far out of his league on this interview. He knows nothing about his subject. Just throws headlines out and waits for a bite, before clumsily moving to the next inconsequential question. JL more than holds his own

[@MK-hp8zr]

Isn't that his style? Fish for good conversation points? I'm also not sure who could better interview him. Unless you had a one on one with Godard and Truffaut I guess

[@catsupchutney]

And today Vietnam is a US ally. Goddard is so self righteous.

[@mullerreus145]

I always found the demeanour of the new wave filmmakers and their contemporaries very strange. What they did in film was nothing new to the medium of storytelling, with everything they “pioneered” in terms of plot, narrative, themes etc. already being very old in everything from theatre to literature. With that in mind a lot of the dialogue which gets passed around like chalk at a snooker club because of its “brilliance” is at times downright embarrassing. It goes to the stage where the scene is at times something only celebrates itself. Much like contemporary art circles today on a local scale. All this experimentation, these vague notions, esoteric directions, and nonsensical plots and dialogues where everybody speaks in strange half sermons all to end up as clear levels below a countless number of playwrights, novelists, and poets. The arrogance and pretentiousness of the entire scene and the people involved is downright eye rolling.

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@@HAL-rx5ln Mate it's a comment on new wave cinema, there's nothing to "relax" about lmao.

[@vivalapsych]

You may be right, perhaps the dialogues are trite or pretentious. Perhaps the characters are. I’m not French so I can’t appreciate those films in the same way their intended audience would. For me I just enjoy them for yes, the pretentiousness, the lovely 60s monochrome, the women and the VIBES man.

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Your struggle core attempted analysis is fucking hilarious and pitiful, I genuinely hope you have some success into your understanding of film and film history at some point in your life

[@93Enthusiast]

Too bad he wasn’t a Maginot Line critic

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Very disrespectful

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Godard or Cavett?

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