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

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  • 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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    Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
    His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
    Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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  • @TheDickCavettShow
    @TheDickCavettShow  4 місяці тому

    Watch more interviews with celebrities here: ua-cam.com/play/PLBV2bST5iuyHwO8LJEV2ZBt_cZnaxlVJt.html

  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell 4 місяці тому +27

    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 🍁

  • @suzannefarrington4143
    @suzannefarrington4143 4 місяці тому +21

    Godard’s English isn’t good enough to convey all his ideas clearly, but from what I can understand, he seems pretty interesting.

    • @leoelliondeux
      @leoelliondeux 4 місяці тому +2

      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.

  • @thecommonsensecapricorn
    @thecommonsensecapricorn 4 місяці тому +11

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

  • @Alexander-tj2dn
    @Alexander-tj2dn Місяць тому

    He changed movies forever with his marvellous and ground breaking film Breathless.

  • @Czechbound
    @Czechbound 4 місяці тому +7

    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 !

  • @Luzanne.
    @Luzanne. 4 місяці тому +6

    “But this space is ugly soooo…”
    😂

  • @warrenrudkin5277
    @warrenrudkin5277 4 місяці тому +8

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

  • @clash5j
    @clash5j 4 місяці тому +20

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

    • @RegenerativeHomes
      @RegenerativeHomes 4 місяці тому +3

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

    • @void-v5d
      @void-v5d 28 днів тому +1

      he was always a critic/filmmaker

  • @sooniemakaena9800
    @sooniemakaena9800 4 місяці тому

  • @flowerbedmusic2674
    @flowerbedmusic2674 2 дні тому

    This is the wrong context for Godard, really.

  • @PlayNiceFolks
    @PlayNiceFolks 4 місяці тому +2

    🙄

  • @catalinamarquez6937
    @catalinamarquez6937 4 місяці тому

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    • @easyandy95
      @easyandy95 4 місяці тому +1

      What is your major malfunction?

  • @smsm4356
    @smsm4356 4 місяці тому +9

    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
      @MK-hp8zr 4 місяці тому +7

      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

    • @Mb_Drei
      @Mb_Drei 2 місяці тому

      ​@@MK-hp8zr That would probably end up as a boxing match...
      Anyways, back to the original comment, it should be common knowledge that the french new wave was born as a counter-movement to Hollywood movie making, so big productions with the same actors playing the same sort of characters in the same 4/5 types of story.
      I don't say this because I think the nouvelle vague is better, but to put into perspective how different the approach to directing was. Godard doesn't want to simplify his artistic process to make it more digestible to American audiences, and Cavett isn't there to challenge Godard's statements and start a long, introspective debate on very personal directing choices.
      I'd say that this interview went better than I expected, with Godard using the X-Ray example as a metaphor for his films, and even a small bit of humour with the "But that space is ugly" comment.
      If you wanted a smoother back and forth, you shouldn't have come to a JLG interview, he says it himself that he doesn't want to be brief when praising (while also criticizing) a movie by someone like Scorsese.

  • @mullerreus145
    @mullerreus145 4 місяці тому +7

    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.

    • @HAL-rx5ln
      @HAL-rx5ln 4 місяці тому +9

      relax bro

    • @gretagarbeige
      @gretagarbeige 4 місяці тому +1

      do better

    • @mullerreus145
      @mullerreus145 4 місяці тому +1

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

    • @vivalapsych
      @vivalapsych 4 місяці тому +1

      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.

    • @bobbymcfee2974
      @bobbymcfee2974 4 місяці тому

      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

  • @catalinamarquez6937
    @catalinamarquez6937 4 місяці тому

    Some Soul's have to many owtsinali😢souls on one means the real soul ❤

  • @catsupchutney
    @catsupchutney 4 місяці тому +7

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

  • @catalinamarquez6937
    @catalinamarquez6937 4 місяці тому

    Thank you very much my gourgeous angels the new name for the big newborn's Billions

  • @93Enthusiast
    @93Enthusiast 4 місяці тому +1

    Too bad he wasn’t a Maginot Line critic

  • @parapoliticos52
    @parapoliticos52 4 місяці тому

    Very disrespectful

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 4 місяці тому

      Godard or Cavett?

    • @parapoliticos52
      @parapoliticos52 4 місяці тому

      @@jeshkam yes

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 4 місяці тому +1

      @@parapoliticos52 no?

  • @freaksofnashville
    @freaksofnashville 4 місяці тому

    You are not independent of fart.

    • @ModMokkaMatti
      @ModMokkaMatti 4 місяці тому

      The 🌮 🔔 economy depends on this.