Meeting With Woody Allen (1986) Godard (1)

[deirdrebounds]

The music at the beginning is George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue', which Allen used in his film Manhattan, I believe.

[funkaluca]

which song is that at the begginig of the video?

[bigideas3]

Why are 2&3 not available on mobile?

[my1990ful]

Woody is so damn intimidated by JLG

[me2i81sour2]

Sheesh - More Godard than Allen. Like he the film for is about his artistic interests in portraying Allen than an interview with Allen.

[queiloroincontri]

@me2i81sour2 so?

[matthewsween]

"woody allen seems uncomfortable" i think it's because godard deliberately uses language in a confusing way. i think allen respects him though. decent interview.

"woody allen is a creep" maybe. but honestly...godard's films make me uncomfortable for some reason. i mean, sometimes they're funny...but i just think his fixation on women is more weird than allen's. godard's movies can be arduous. anyways i usually cant summarize a godard movie after seeing it. allen is probably a better filmmaker.

[slangshotstudios]

this is obviously a statement on how a well conducted interview can become a narrative itself with the use of frequent interrupting titles

/sarcasm

(I love Godard, but this video fucking sucks)

[deansusky]

Wish some one would upload Godard.s movies

[bobbybobsta]

I put a lot of thought into this comment

[garbageidiot]

I am extremely irritated by the constant interference of the black screen with letters on it- a single thought is hardly ever completed

[thot4]

@garbageidiot

Protip: if that irritated you, don't watch a Godard film.

[garbageidiot]

I am extremely irritated by the constant interference of the black screen with letters on it

[lfcruzsierra]

How the hell can someone DISLIKE this?!?!?

[barrytron3030]

i don't think woody would have such a favourable estimation of the press, NOW. great interview, nonetheless but perhaps Godard was a little, I don't know, GODARD?

[obbligato555]

pause at 0:36. he looks like that thing in the cantina from star wars.

[bapyou]

0:22 - Woody wearing panties?

[triniti04]

hey, does anybody know where can i get this film with english subtitles???

pls, if u do, let me know.

[triniti04]

hey, does anybody know where can i get this film with english subtitles???

pls, if u do, let me know.

[chopin65]

Those titles are a bit distracting. It really makes one question the interest the director has in Allen as an interview. 

[jimglas]

Très amusant êtres instructif

Très Godardien

Master Man.

[lovely7007]

can someone tell me the name of the music in the beginning?

[LDooderman]

I've visited an interesting youtube channel : LDooderman from illustrator/Videomaker Leonardo Doderman...very interesting

[yisacknayrabin]

Jesus Godard, is this piece about Allen or about your annoying, self-indulgent, not funny, intercuts with title cards and music? This is completely intolerable and unwatchable. What on Earth was the point of making this at all? Talk about missing the boat entirely...

[levanyzzuf]

I've been told several times that Allen speaks French...why does he need a translator?

[annieinthehall]

Can't anyone put english subtitles in the parts when they speak french, please? I know how to speak french but sometimes I get a bit lost. Pretty please!

[fafmouser]

He actually though DeNiro and Pachino were to sexy? I could only imagine how he feels about new leading actors  these days.

[cinemar]

this was kind of interesting until the obnoxious interruptions with music and lame titles.

[turntapzap]

Pause at 0:29. It looks like he's wearing a bikini.

[loudbytecinema]

@turntapzap I think its a thong.



[carsanookdotcom]

Fantastique et artistique meme soustitre!

Merci beaucoup mattyeuh

Merci!

Dr John Koistinen-Lindgren

Royaume de Thailande

[carsanookdotcom]

Allen Woody. A beer drinker. Godard a Galoise smoker

He is one of my two living favorite directors.

The other one is Werner Herzog. You'll find him on YouTube.

Dr John

CarSanook

Kingdom of Thailand

[ajnaf1]

sometimes Godard irritates me.. sometimes he inspires me.. sometimes i think he thinks too much and talks too much... to each his own..

[MrMarxwasright]

Thank god woody isn't talking, how he ever got the reputation of 'thinker' or artist just shows the idiocy of American culture.

[septip123]

horrible interview. Exactly how NOT to interview a person, getting in the way of your subject with annoying cut-aways and mad, senseless cuts.

[jerseysdeniro]

Godard never considered this just a straight forward interview. Like all his films, its experimental. He's playing around with the structure of a director interview and I for one found it exceedingly interesting. There's a million straight-forward, boring interviews out there with Woody. This is something different, and quite refreshing.

[Super8StrikesBack]

Two of the most brilliant filmmakers and Gershwin, a master of music.

[dekekyo]

well well!!

[Beetoe]

Why do you have to leave negative and pointless comment on what you clearly don't get?

[Shearnster]

Uh Woody Allen is to filmaking like what Bob Dylan is to songwriting i.e. opium for the psudo-intellectuals. He is also a pederast and the worst thing about the French other than thier arrogence is the fact that they have single handedly prevented this perv from being blackballed by Hollywood.

Godard had made some interesting but barmy films in the late 60's but is a dinosaur who has slowly dissapeared up his back passage.

[lofod]

@Shearnster

LOL.

It has to be hard-or cool- to be you. Now, I'm a psudo(sic) intellectual because I like Woody.

Jo, filmaking.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@Shearnster

People who write psudo-BLANK are worse than child molesters. Which Woody Allen ISN"T, you racist shit.

Bob Dylan? You're right, he's no Doodletown Pipers or Lee Greenwood.

[skonerr]

@Shearnster : you look like a funny guy. don't know, ten years ago Dylan + Allen changed my life (in a way). What am I exactly ? a pederast or a psudo-intellectual ? or both ? (I hope so). Oh yeah, I forgot something : I think Godard is to cinema what Hegel was to philosophy : the man who came after and tried to say the meaning of the dead thing. Fuck, I can see I'm just a 'psudo-intellectual', what a useless life (my life : not your life for sure !).

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Has anyone heard the story of Godard having no nuts. It's why in one of his films he is shown playing tennis without any balls. That would explain a lot I think.

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Is that fade a joke or what! Godard is a joke for sure.

[VIDJACK]

it's amazing, isn't it, how impressed Godard is with Godard. He must imprint everything with his solipsistic narcissism. Ever see Sympathy for the Devil - the "documentary" he did of The Stones. Unwatchable. Screw Godard. He has no understanding of America, American icons, or New Yorkers. The only thing he knows, for sure, is his colon.

[Picardy]

Well I was quite alive in 1986 and remember a lot of actors that I wouldn't have considered "sexy". To each their own.

[bapyou]

0:22 ... the fade makes Woody look like he's wearing panties.

[ivmarta]

damn ! im trying to hear some of W A through all those special effects ! so annoying..

[hbh2046]

Disastrous editing.

[francoisXIV]

PS this interview sucks and is terrific

[francoisXIV]

un américain à paris, ou j'aimerais bien me trouver

[biiicyclerace]

HAHA! This is brilliant!

[truss508]

Its a great interview with alot of important advice from a remarkable director. However those seemingly random shots with random phrases in a black background just seem too distracting.

[lamibenoit]

As i grow older i tolerate less and less Godard.

[BethanyCharlene]

My two favorite directors, geniuses in my eyes. They don't make movies that have meaning, as much anymore..

[ouchouchgrandma]

Génial, je ne connaissais pas ce document... Merci infiniment.

[robertlaberge]

Le montage est très original,

Godard est fidèle à lui-même.

[OmegaGraham]

Annoying editing, let the man speak, wtf?

[stanleyKubrik11]

it's a parodie of interview . Woody Allen use the same technique in deconstructing harry.

[johnnysocco3]

I was 8 years old when this happened... Unaware... My niece will have more culture... More access

[Alkhir69]

Godard always makes me laugh...

[danmalo]

Very good, Mr Godard... You know how to treat a fellow director just with acting... Pretty fine Hoo?

[iaralillylynosjohn]

Bravo..It was fascinating being able to see Godard a genius. Interviewing another one..I found it so interesting when Woody described by how his Photographer director likes to shoot a scene and about the actors.. Fascinating!

[Picardy]

What an insane thing to say that there are no regular men in American - he's just star struck and looking at the 'celebrity". Last time I looked there were 10's of thousands of actors in America that "weren't sexy".

[JansenPM]

@gingerbreadface

To call Godard a French cunt alone destroys your argument. If you want people to take you seriously, I would suggest swaying from that habit.

[Thomistica]

@JansenPM How about 'Maoist piece of garbage'?

[yvamarquer]

It's ironic that JLG's style is supposedly about getting the audience to think, but his delivery both in conversation and in film is all about making sure he is the one in control.

His best films combined radical invention with very uplifting humour... something which he sadly seems to have lost.

[yvamarquer]

JLG's comment on TV influence just shows how he's willing to use and abuse anybody for his own bitter "anti-capitalist" posturing.

[vreaucont]

=))))

[believerster]

What exactly makes Godard's films unwatchable?

[MirrorMatterMatt]

Rob... I am a Godard enthusiast who vaguely agrees that some of his films are unwatchable. But, along with Rivette, Godard did more to test the limits of and expand cinematic narrative than anybody else before or since.

[trepante2]

This only highlights Goddard's question to Allen about the influence of tv even more. It underlines how it dictates the perceptions and reactions of (passive) viewers, or rather I should say consumers. Furthermore, Allen is not a defenseless character, he has all the cinematic means at his

disposal to give a cinematic response to this Goddard's cinematic piece -- if he'd wished to do so.

[trepante2]

One of the funny things in this thread of comments is that most people seem to be so used to the standardized tv interviews that, as a result, they feel very uncomfortable with this video. They seem to ignore the fact that most

interviewers in tv just plainly ignore the subject (cinema) when they talk with directors or actors in their shows. And I'd say that that should be a much more important concern.

[jpastuch]

I think these guys should have another interview since they're both still alive.

It'd be hilarious.

[ReservoirDentPie]

Godard, you bastard. That's horrible.

[racsonam]

WOODY ALLEN SUCKS lolipops. He is awesome.

[vieryuiop]

Unwatchable! This isn't the Woody Allen interview... It's the Jean Luc-Godard Show! Woody is just the vehicle. Godard MUST be the star! Like that thing when you are talking to someone, and you can tell they're not listening to you: they're just waiting for their turn to speak.

I wonder, if Woody had been interviewing Godard, if he'd have edited across Godard's observations? Somehow I very much doubt it. In fact, I know he wouldn't have.

[sartoresartus]

Arguably Godard is the more interesting person, so it might all be for the best.

[sblug2]

Funny, Allen seems a bit uncomfortable in front of Godard. I think he doesn't answer as he would if it was another person asking the same questions. ^^

[pishdad]

He feels uncomfortable because it like Bach interviewing Madonna!!! Or Leonardo interviewing Johnny Carson- Ha, ha, ha!! W. Allen knows he's the Johnny Carson.

[jdd32005]

I wish he would treat the interview as just a normal interview instead of these ridiculous edits. He cut Woody off on a lot of his answers. Answers I would like to have heard...

[wungabunga]

I like the subtitles, but there's a few bits that Allen hasn't said at all! Not very important concepts or anything lol...

[barrytron3030]

he ceetainly has changed his opinion about the press since

[jbearden]

I think Goddard's composition actually sucks. Is that allowed?

[vieryuiop]

You can say what you want bro. You have freedom of speech. That's why our grandparent's fought the Nazis!

:)

[Jannacek]

what's with the editing in this film!

[Phalces]

What I love is the respect Woody shows Godard. You can see he loves the man. And visa - versa.

[Phalces]

Great questions. Godard is the best interviewer possible but damn how I wish it was more of a conversation - say a two hour conversation between both of them rather then an interrogation and I can do without the interruptions which nine out of ten times don't help. Better if he had used images to interrupt rather then those boring titles that add nothing but shrink rather then expand the conversation. Great stuff anyhow. Now if Godard can do this today with Martin Scorsese... !!!!!!

[marblewonder]

rhapsody in blue =)

[girlinthenoir]

i find it a bit ironic how godard is interviewing allen...

but then again, i think is interview is more of godard exploring cinema evolution and chooses allen for whatever reason..

i dunno.

[pishdad]

You're way too correct!! There is not a single observation around here as perceptive as yours! Everyone is just going "Wow! Go Woody!" or "Woody- he's the man!" or "I love Woody." Personally, if I were Woody and these are the comments I'm getting I'd seriously re-evaluate myself and my work. I would be thinking "Am I so bland and is my work so bad that all I elicit from people are comments like these?!! "Woody! You're the man!"

[girlinthenoir]

jeez don't piss your pants lol

[pishdad]

Believe me I'm a far cry from "pissing my pants," from reading a minor comment as yours. It's just that it rather appeared like a pearl when compared to the vast backdrop of ingorance written all around it. You would have elicited a much nicer comment from me if your comment to me would have been just a simple- "Oh thanks," as opposed to the stupid piss comment.

[girlinthenoir]

oh, i thought I sensed a lot of sarcasm in your comment when I first read it

i guess i read it wrong now viewing it again

sorry about that man~

[pishdad]

Self Obsessiveness leads to wisdom & great understanding(incl. other people). If the individual in question is able to avoid, stay clear, of the toxins which exists whilst promenading down the aisle of self obsession, if this subject can divorce them-self from being overly self important and indulgent, the rewards at the end are truly great! The rewards consist of great wisdom and knowledge.

[pishdad]

Yes. Allen reflects exactly the American mentality of film/cinema. It is literary not cinematic! That is exactly the difference between Godard and his milieu. People like Allen & Hollywood do cinema or film as if it is a book. Godard does cinema or film as if it is exactly that. That is why Godard is head and shoulders above and beyond anybody else who ever touched a camera to make a movie.The Allen's of the world just don't get it. Henry Ford's work is more similar to Godard than Woody Allen's!

[GoonerAlias]

But thats a choice. It's not like American filmmakers are so inadequete they cant comprehend how to make a film that isnt essentially a 'story'. It's just that a story sells and always has done in hollwyood cos its a form of escapism for the massess.

[GoonerAlias]

As far as Allen goes, he's been writing, directing and starring in films once a year for the past 40 years. Alot of his recent films have not been up to his usual standards but they are better than most mainstream films and his best stuff is better than most films (although I can understand that this statement is more than a bit debatable).

[pishdad]

Well I understand what you're saying. Theoretically, you are correct- it's not like Americans can't conceive my point. The problem is that they do little if anything about the conception and this winds up with the same ends. My point is that their all sell outs. Americans are just great at bending over and spreading their butt for cash. It is a symptom of a society gone mad. The only thing that is different about our society and that of Caligula is technology- that's it!!

[pishdad]

We're just as stupid, wasteful, ignorant, and deserving of doom as in the times of Caligula & the days of Sodem & Gamorrah. The greed, avarice and other problems of our age has Irrevocable doomed humanity. It is unfortunate but true.

[haprdgn]

You don't have to say "we're" because clearly you're the model citizen.

[pishdad]

Oh! Yes, you're so correct!

[haprdgn]

I nearly choked on that huge smug cloud you emitted.

[pishdad]

Why am I not surprised?! (-:

[pishdad]

Wow! Someone has 1/2 a brain!!

[pishdad]

Wow! Someone actually has 1/2 a brain!!!

[arained]

why the fuck does the music has to interrupt so my times?

[pishdad]

Because they want you to feel like you're in a Cabaret. It's very important that when watching this you're in a Cabaret of sorts drinking some good port and having a cigar. Oh, and smoke, there's gotta be a lot of cigar smoke lofting upwards in that typical cigar smoke billowing fashion. Get the picture? Okay now go and duplicate it okay?!! Then video yourself doing alll of the above while watching this You Tube clip. Then you must place that video on youtube for everybody to watch.

[pishdad]

That's Godard's creation. The way he does things-art,etc. You're supposed to take this piece as a cinematic composition and not so completely and strictly as an interview with W. Allen. Imagine a composer makes a musical composition which is centered around another musical compositon. You will have unexpected and seemingly random parts merging into each other. Capiche?!

[CinnamonTree]

I completely understand what you mean. However, it is also very annoying. Certainly there can be self-indulgent, pointless art, much like this case.

[carlo88moe]

yea, he's seem a bit nervous too, weird considering that he's a legend interviewing a relatively great film director, i mean of course this was after the landmark A.H. and Manhattan, but WA had yet to engrave himself, i believe, with Crimes n'MD as a legend. i mean his wit is impecable, and i cant laud him enough, but the darker flicks really just showed his range, attributes of truely great filmmakers is the ability to excel in anything.

[DoubleTalkingJive]

Wow never heard Godard speak English before....

[Allen01ginsberg]

l'entrevue est intéressante mais Godard ne voit en cette interview qu'un autre moyen de montrer au monde son intelligence, c'est dommage qu'il ne se concentre pas plus sur la réflexion cinématographique de woody allen. Un peu d'humilité ne serait pas de trop

[tomes55moon]

the mix of titles and music is fuking annoying, woody allen...ten seconds of interview, title and music....seven minutes.Godard you wierdo. x

[TheRealBladeRunner]

"I mix images and sounds like a scientist, I hope. The mystery of the scientific is the same as the mystery of the artist. So is the misery." Goddard.

Couldn't agree more.

[rollswrangler]

Is there a way to downdoad and save this?

[barry06]

holy god, i love woody allen

[vieryuiop]

At that time, Woody lived in an apartment overlooking central park so it probably is his place. Mia Farrow had an apartment on the opposite side of the park. They had telescopes so that they could wave to and see each other! :)

[Johnnyo743]

i could imagine that haha so woody