Meeting With Woody Allen (1986) Godard (1)

Jean Luc Godard is a pretentious dud. Typical arrogant French cunt. This 'interview' is emblematic of his fraudulent and insincere output - oh, look, exposing the essential artifice of the 'interview' - not very insightful or enlightening. He would have better served the viewer if he'd just, you know, a chat with Allen. Instead he has to indulge in masturbatory nonsense with an agenda.

@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.

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.

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

Too bad Goddard cut out this part:

Goddard: So, tell me, Woody, why don't you take the possessory credit on all your films? Remember, I invented the auteur theory, which says directors are authors of films they don't even write...

Allen: Hmmmm, I don't know, Jean Luc, I guess, maybe it's because you're full of shit...Oh, and by the way, your movies are unwatchable.

=))))

What exactly makes Godard's films unwatchable?

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.

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