3 Things 'Breathless' Teaches Us About Filmmaking
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2015
- Episode #4: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is one of the most influential movies of all time, but what does it teach us about filmmaking? Breathless helped launch the French New Wave, change the accepted modes of production, establish Auteur Theory, and inspire some of the most celebrated filmmakers in cinema history. This episode is an experiment in a new interactive video essay format- several references are expanded upon through interactive buttons that link to short side-videos.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Clips:
Breathless (1960 Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Pulp Fiction (1994 Dir. Quentin Tarantino)
My Own Private Idaho (1991 Dir. Gus Van Sant)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967 Dir. Arthur Penn)
Primary (1960 Dir. Robert Drew)
Chronicle of a Summer (1961 Dir. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin)
Black Swan (2010 Dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Saving Private Ryan (1998 Dir. Steven Spielberg)
“Iran Hostage Crisis 1979” - ABC News
Fruitvale Station (2013 Dir. Ryan Coogler)
The French Connection (1971 Dir. William Friedkin)
Jean-Luc Godard Interview - Reflets de Cannes 1960
Moi, un noir (1958 Dir. Jean Rouch)
“The Best and Worst of 2014” - vlogbrothers (UA-cam)
Pierrot le Fou (1965 Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Sources:
David Sterritt’s Breathless DVD commentary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathle...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_N...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc...
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The best video essays on UA-cam are about films.
I sgree
Always
Bonnie and Clyde in japan as teenagers!!! Fuck !! that sounds awesome!!
+SonofSivadas I know, right!? I still need to see his King Lear, which I hear is pretty 'out-there' as well.
@@CinemaTyler Did you ever get around to seeing JLG's King Lear? It is definitely out there (and incredibly hilarious - especially the girlfriend who wasn't there).
For such a then radical film, it's interesting to me that the structure is actually super traditional: very precisely that of a tragedy, a series of events triggered by a single fatal decision and then playing out a series of manoeuvres on the part of the main character to ward off the resulting encounter with deadly nemesis. You can even read its postmodernism through this lens, seeing the character's fatal hubris as being born of an immersion in Hollywood and consumerism: even in his imperilled state, he does not stop boyishly enthusing about flashy cars and imitating and identifying with Bogart. It's as if he cannot fully comprehend the danger of his own situation because of the spell these fantasies have him under. In a way, Godard's Brechtian strategies might then be read as a way of saying: I'm not going to let you become similarly, dangerously spellbound.
Great video, just one small correction: Not all the directors were critics. The French New Wave is often split into two groups, the critics from Cahiers du cinema (Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Rivette, Rohmer, etc.) and the Left Bank (Resnais, Varda, Demy, Marker, etc.). The second group did not start as critics and were not necessarily cinephiles. While the groups interacted and frequently were friends (even collaborators), the big distinction was that the Left Bank often came from other arts and that they were slightly more experimental/avant grade - often taking inspiration from the broader art movement - such as Nouveau Roman (Duras and Robbe-Grillet worked with them, and sometimes they are counted among them too).
Duras always said she wasn't involved in Nouveau Roman mouvement.
RIP Jean-Luc. IMO one of the 3 most influential directors in cinema, along with Griffith and Welles.
Thorough yet assertive and oversaturated analysis. Great work, keep it up!
This is so well-researched and thought-out. I appreciate your time as I explore film.
Thank you soooooo much. I finally understand why this film is soooooo important to film history. While I have known about Goddard, Breathless and jump cuts for decades until I watched this video I never knew that Goddard's primary rationale for the use of this editing technique did not PRIMARILY stem from an aesthetic/artistic choice but rather from a simple desire to shorten the running time of the film.
Thank you for also educating me about
Berthold Brecht's influence on this film.
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The level of detail in this is amazing thanks so much for putting this channel together. The time and effort you put in is deeply appreciated. People like you make the web go round and make the rest of us more educated cinefiles. Thank you.
Amen!
@Maria Ortiz-Metzger Thank you very much for your comments! Your kind words make this all worthwhile.
I really appreciate all you've brought to light and taught us through this video. Love from a big Godard fan xo
This is a great review, Tyler, thank you very much for putting it all together.
Loved this video! THanks for making it and I totally appreciate the interactive features! It couldn't have been easy to edit and compile all of this information but it is one of the most helpful sources I have found on my brief research of Godard. Will be watching the rest of your videos too!
+sailjpt Thanks! This one was really fun to make!
I have an oral exam tomorrow about the history of films, thank you so much for explaining this movie, it helped a lot to understand the french new wave :)
Cinema Tyler...I have just discovered your channel, and I have to say between this video on Breathless (one of my favorite films along with Bande A Part) and your 2001 docs I have come across the most thorough and detailed film production sites on the web...keep up the great work man
+stevesharief7 Thanks so much!
This was your best video so far. There are a lots of videos about people talking about cinema on UA-cam but somehow most of them end saying nothing new. Your videos are awesome and I really like the movies you have chosen to discuss. Also the supplements idea on this video was great. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, that really means a lot! This one took forever to make and I was unsure if the interactivity idea was going to work out. Glad you liked it!
so much info in such a well made video!!! really informative stuff man
I really liked this. Unassuming and modest, but densely informative and accessible. Chapeau x
Thanks so much!
What a fascinating name.
These lessons in film are so exciting. And wow, to see this about Breathless after the study of Dog Day Afternoon, two films with profoundly different directorial philosophy and raison d'être - yet you treat each purely in its own terms and with enormous insight.
Thanks so much!
Great job - I enjoyed your analysis and the interactive feature worked out well...looking forward to seeing more!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, what a detailed analysis! I love the style of this movie so much. The protagonists are gorgeous.
I've just discovered New Wave cinema and your video is a nice and useful way to understand what I'm watching. Thank you!
Glad you liked it! Thanks!
This is a great, elaborate, insightful video essay man! Love your videos!
+Mark Ng Thank you!
I love this approach! Great work
I watched Breathless and studied the Nouvelle Vague at University on a film course. It blew my mind.
I am honestly exactly in the same position now haha
@@marafortune3713 Nice, good luck! The Cahiers du Cinema crowd, Andre Bazin and Bresson, Godard etc were the first to recognise Hollywood narrative film as an art form and we've never looked back.
its of great use for understanding french new wave films
Thanks!
I watched pretty much all of your video since yesterday. Great job mate.
Thank you!
Awesome , because you used the very tools you were showing, more important it get me thinking and wondering how I could use them in my own art. Thank you and well done. Al
Really good essay! Very important lesson to remember young filmmakers to use what they have! Great job!
Ivan José Hurtado Barón Thanks! Glad you liked it!
This is a very insightful and clear video! I'm impressed with your level of knowledge - thanks for sharing this so everyone can understand the incredible beauty of the French New Wave :)
***** Thank you! The French New Wave is responsible for many of cinema's greatest films and not just the ones made during the New Wave, but also those that it inspired. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for making this video. Learned a lot about one of my fav films.
excellent video, encouraging, interactive, and resourceful. keep up the good job.
Subrata Chatterjee Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video and channel. Thx for making such a great job! Cheers
Gabriel P. G. Santos Thanks for the comment! I appreciate it!
I loved your video, it is very interesting and I really liked the interactive form. Thanks to you I finally understood what is the Nouvelle Vague (and yet I am French!).
It is a shame because now in France, people often criticise the Nouvelle Vague, they say it is "pretentious" "intellectual cinema", that takes itself too seriously (but I am sure they have only seen a few movies). Yet, Nouvelle Vague movies are among the rare French films that are famous in the world. But after your explanation, I understand the Nouvelle Vague, its aims and its qualities. Thank you very much for your work.
Thanks! The Nouvelle Vague has really been the most fascinating film movement I've researched. I don't think I've seen a film in the Nouvelle Vague that wasn't interesting. Thanks for watching!
this was a great great essay, thanks!
Amazing work! I've watched two of your videos and feel like I've learnt more than three years of college. Subscribed!
Thanks!
Been watching your stuff man, and honestly.....*HONESTLY* it's awesome. Like you'll have a lot of people post on others and go "Oh man your channel where you just mumble and go 'ummm' for like half of it with out really making a point or really put any extra effort is so awesome and you deserve more subscribers". Nah.
You can see the effort, quality, and passion in *every* single one of your videos. Know that you're doing an awesome job and that your videos are impacting. Keep on keeping on.
Ps. Great idea for this video. Worked phenomenally.
Thanks for the comment! I really appreciate it. It really makes it all worthwhile.
@@CinemaTyler
I totally concur. See my comment above. I've watched your videos on The French Connection and Dog Day Afternoon recently as well as others and learned so much from them . You do such awesome work for such a young person (I'm almost 59).the care effort and love that you put into your videos really shows and I am certain that there are thousands of viewers who are just as appreciative of your work as I am. Kudos and a standing ovation for you. Keep up the great work🖕❤😊
@@CinemaTyler Great video. I love movies. I love seeing them reviewing them and then writing my own stories. I love films made by film lovers I hope to see this film soon and also I saw your inherent vice video which is a movie I am dying to see. Wonderful video, great explanation. You got yourself a sub
Thanks a lot for this video.
It helped me a lot while writing my analysis to school.
Great lesson Mr. Tyler! Us film students can add to their curriculum with your collection of videos!
Thank you!
WE film students. We________can add. Not: Us_____can add. See?
this is such a great video! Really helped me out with my history of film class, thanks!!!
+marie welsch Thanks for watching! Happy I could help! I have such love for the French New Wave and I always seem to be able to trace the influence of my favorite films back to Breathless and The 400 Blows.
Learned a lot , cheers!
Wonderful. Love the tab idea as it works :)
I enjoyed your presentation and look forward to hearing more from you. I like the buttons. They enhance the discussion by defining the concept in the discussion.
Thanks! I wish that UA-cam still allowed you to make annotations!
Tyler, you speak my language. I see how much work that you put into it and the required passion to push it forward. Makes me want to see and learn more. Watching this vid reminded me of stuff that I had forgotten! Cheers to you!
AMAZING JOB with this video
very good analysis, thanks!
Some feedback about the interactive component: I found it very effective. It mimics how i use the web. It was well executed and enhanced my viewing experience. Good work, keep it up. Thanks.
Don H Thanks for the feedback! Glad to know it was effective! There are a couple more interactivity experiments I’m working out for my next vid. Thanks for the comment!
I didn't know that Godard almost directed Bonnie and Clyde, that would make the New Hollywood completely different.
One of those great if onlies.
its crazy he was even considered lmao
I’m not sure it would exist had he directed it
Nice video essay bro!!
+SonofSivadas Thanks!
This is great stuff. I teach a class on New Waves and this has proven very useful. Thanks!
+Kerim Aytac Wow, thanks! I'm honored and happy to help!
Excellent, CinemaTyler. Seen it 3- timer +
Amazing video. thanks for making this. Inspirational.
ibopwebop Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
thank you for your videos, keep up the good work!
Thanks!
this was such a help! thank you
+ayushi koul Glad you liked it!
what a great video! very informative in an interesting way
+Sigal Deluya Thank you!
Wow. What an cinephile action toward a very loving film. Thanks for this "full of Idea" Video
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
wow! great essay!! just subscribed to your channel and watched the inherent vice video, wich is also fantastic. Would love to see more stuff like this from you! keep it up! :) Best Regards!
Thanks! You will!
Thank you - really enjoyed the education! I'll be off to click through the links in my second and third times through.
Mark Freeman Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it!
Verry complete and interesting video! Thanks a lot for that! I really think there should be more analysis and less critics in Cinema. I'm pretty glad you did so :)
Clara Imbeau Thanks very much! I always found the idea of art criticism very strange because art is so subjective. I imagine it takes a bit of creativity to dislike a piece of art and consider what should have been done differently. I find it fascinating that the major players of the French New Wave started out as critics themselves. That said, the thing I really love about film analysis over film criticism is that it doesn't seek to end the conversation (through persuasion), but instead it seeks to provoke discussion.
this is not the first time i say this, but your channel is remarkable. thank you for this.
hope you somehow get paid by youtube
Thank you!! :) Great information!
Glad you liked it!
Just brilliant! Thank you.
Abby Brill Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Masterful. Favorited in less than a minute.
Oh, and subscribed. Keep up the excellent work my friend.
That's good.
I've studied the Nouvelle Vague when I was at the University but still learned new things with your video. :)
+Raisonnance Thanks! That's great to hear!
Great job!
Andrea Crema Thank you!
Really enjoyed this. Thank you. (Subbed)
Thanks!
One of my top 20 favourite films. You made a great video about it. Subscribed:)
severi saaristo Thanks! Glad you liked it!
+severi saaristo whats the full list?
TheGrapeinc These movies: Fight Club, The Godfather 1&2, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane, 2001: a space odyssey, Blue Velvet, Vertigo, The Good, the bad and the ugly, Back to the Future, Breathless, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Sunrise: a song of two humans, Seven Samurai, The Shining, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas and Psycho; there's 21 I think
severi saaristo Good list
TheGrapeinc Thanks:)
Only recently got around to seeing this one. Great video
+ActuallyDarcy Thanks! Glad you liked it!
good work, good insight I enjoyed it.
Thank you!
Make more videos! I really,really loved your approach to Breathless ,I'd love to see more!!
shannon mcfarland Sorry it has been taking me so long! I've been splitting my attention between a rather in-depth video for my channel and a video series I'm doing for IndieWire. If you're interested, you can check out my IndieWire vids here: cinematyler.com/category/indiewire
Thanks for taking the time to comment! I'll try and get the new UA-cam video out soon!
Great analysis of a classic film.
Richard Woolfenden Thanks!
What I learned from Breathless is don’t even try to make a living as a cheap hustler robbing people because that will end in jail or Death 💀! Instead learn a good trade and make a good living earning your pay and keep living.
Better rusted than busted
Thanks for this!!!
6:03. I don't believe there is a relation between both tools. Jump cuts in video blogging are just to rush the dialogue, it's a sound thing. You can jump cut in film in moments of silence, and the background in each frame may actually change. That's art.
Video Blogging is so uncreative that the camera is always in the same place.
Dinastía Chow Fan They are still jump cuts, but I specify in the video that it is being used for a different purpose in video blogging. This device was borrowed by the video blogging culture as a way to circumvent the pacing issues that inevitably arise from amateur presenters. It’s nothing on them-it’s actually quite effective. People are still experimenting with it and I’ve seen some pretty creative uses of it, but you’re right, the motivation is very different than its use in film. Thanks for the comment!
Great video! superb
Thank you!
I like "400 Blows" much more, but one can see how the style and methods of Godard work for other directors. I think his work is interesting mainly in how it influenced others who had more talent.
This was a great video :)
itsFlyxe Thank you!
Nice analysis
Good job, the interactive content works well. I believe Goddard's 3D movie was made using two Canon 5d cameras together as a 3D pair.
Dude, this is great.
+Chase Fraley Thanks!
Excelent! Really, really good.Outstanding!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Jean don’t deserve all of tragedy in is life , but deserved love and respect.
Rip Jean we miss you .
lots of interesting info!
Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked it!
Very well put. Just subscribed :)
Thanks!
Saw "Breathless" recently at the "arthaus" filmfestival for the first time...made me breathless...the beautiful editing....the soundtrack, the simplicity of everything...this is truly a "directos´s movie" if you know what I mean.
Definitely check out some of the other films in Godard’s cinematic period (1960-1967) if you haven’t already. Pierrot le Fou is probably my favorite. It’s one of the most beautifully shot movies I’ve ever seen.
Yeah watched it on my collection. So great. What I love the most about movies from this period (or put it this way: movies from the french new wave), is that no other director would have the balls to have a scene in the forest with the actors singing along for 4-5 minutes...just this simplicity and poetry to it is so fascinating to me.
Such a great scene. I also love scene where she is singing in the apartment and the piano music is played live on-location, but you never see where it's coming from.
Oh really? I didn´t know that.
OneManProduct Yeah, and they do it once more when Ferdinand talks to the man on the pier (if I recall correctly).
Very good. You have done your homework.
Luke Bolton Thanks!
Great Video, I liked Breathless but now I like more, I think should do a 8 or 9 minute video for The 400 Blows and Hiroshima mon amour.
David Kubrick Thanks! Both of those films certainly deserve a longer video. Someday!
very good.. the only thing I would add is that the reason La Nouvelle Vague, particularly Godard, was that they/he had much smaller, easier to carry cameras (eg. the Beaulieu & the Bolex) - many of which came out of WWII.. the reason why they had sound stages was for 'sound' which also required large cameras which allowed for very little movement.. watch late silent film & then watch an early sound film of the post mid 20's through the 30's & even the 40's...
+jfloyd wggmn Thanks for the insight! On a similar note, I was just reading up on the audio recorders they used (Nagra sound recorders) and that Kodak Tri-X film stock was launched in 1954, which was much faster and allowed for shooting in lower light. Funny enough, Raoul Coutard used Ilford stock for still cameras and spooled them onto film reels himself.
Thank you.. also for the additional info...
@CinemaTyler Thank you. Thank you Thanks a lot. Lots of love from a random cinephile.
Thank you!!
One of the best and most revolutionary films in the sound era. Very few films are owned by their directors like this was. And very few films have ever wedded their style to what the film was about than this one. Very few films have ever used their two stars like the director wanted them used. Raoul Coutard's work was simply excellent. IMO, no film ever got across the idea that things happen not out of human volition, but because other things make them happen--serendipity. E.g. Belmondo gets shot because his friend throws a gun at him.
Super!
Most discussions about Breathless talk about the filmic elements like this video does. Another thing that struck me about it was his portrayal of on film of the two main characters. Jean Seberg has a short boyish haircut, no 50's bullet bra, and wears a t-shirt. Belmondo is shot for long periods of time wearing only shorts with his legs propped up on something. These are the opposite of traditional male and female roles both in reality and as portrayed on film, and all before modern feminsm really called the male gaze and traditional sex roles and all that into question.
rip Jean Paul Belmondo
I don't really understand how one could talk about the birth of the new wave without talking about the films of Agnes Varda.. especially in this day and age..
would love more analyses of lesser known french new wave films.
great video, but i would add the influence of the italian neorealism too. especially the shooting on location and the use of non-professional actors which contributed to the aspect of reality of a movie.
Good stuff
Thoughts to Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo, two of my favorite actors.
The américans mostly know Belmondo as one of the emblematic actors of the French "New-Wave" appreciated by Quentin Tarantino or Spike Lee but he was also a huge européan star of the action movies in the 60's, the 70'' and the 80's.. Also a boxer appreciated by Sly Stallone or Myckey Rourcke and a genuine Stuntman appreciated by Jackie Chan..
Finally , a lifelong friend of An other french legend, Alain Delon..
Jean Seberg was so charming..
"JLG"Jean-Luc Godard RIP
The links are really good - used in film lessons.
I hear you Tyler and your position is as well thought out as your vid, I suppose my concern is that "there are no rules in art". I remember well, discussions at the coffee house about censorship of Henry Miller, D. H. Lawrence, Lenny Bruce, censorship of form and content. The universally held opinion was that the artist should be free of any cultural constraints. Living in post, post modern times when and where pretty much anything goes, I see all that freedom at the service of commercial concerns. It's like the food at restaurants is better now but mcdonalds is the order of the day. Goddard and everybody else, all that liberating out of the box thinking, if the message is junk food it ain't good for us, no matter the technique used to lure us in. Film is the most powerful influence of culture we got and I seldom hear the word responsibility used in its creation. After all what is art for, the artist or the audience. Technique does not exist in a vacuum. Thanks for your time.