That Time Jean-Luc Godard Roasted Woody Allen

MEETIN' WA (1986) is less of an interview between two directors and more a thesis statement on the struggle at the heart of cinema between images and words, cinema and television, told through the questions Jean-Luc Godard poses and the answers an increasingly ruffled Woody Allen struggles to provide.

A video by Jane Brown
Co-written by Ben Nash and James Slaymaker

Written, edited, and narrated by Jane Brown

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Sources:
► Allen, Woody. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS. (1986). Orion Pictures.
► Godard, Jean-Luc. THE CINÉMATHÈQUES AND THE CINEMA. (2012). Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema.
► ——. HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA. (1988-1998). Gaumont.
► ——. KING LEAR. (1987). Cannon Group.
► ——. "Meetin' WA." (1986). Cannon Group.
► ——. "The Power of Speech." (1988). Gaumont.
► Godard, Jean-Luc and Anne-Marie Miéville. HERE AND ELSEWHERE. (1976). Gaumont.
► ——. SIX TIMES TWO: OVER. (1976). Gaumont.
► McCarey, Leo. Duck Soup. (1933). Paramount Pictures.
► Michelini, Luciano. “Frolic.” (2000). HBO.
► SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. (1975-2021). NBC.
► “‘This is the Enemy.’ Jean-Luc Godard in Cannes 1988.” Uploaded by harukimar. (2010). YouTube.

Additional Readings:
► Bellour, Raymond. L’ENTRE-IMAGES: PHOTO, CINÉMA, VIDÉO. (1990). Paris: La Différence.
► Brody, Richard. EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD. (2008). New York: Holt Paperbacks.
► Williams, James S. ENCOUNTERS WITH GODARD: ETHICS, AESTHETICS, POLITICS. (2016). New York: SUNY Press.
► Witt, Michael. GODARD, CINEMA HISTORIAN. (2013). Indiana UP.

Chapters:
00:00 — Intro
00:29 — No Thing
01:42 — Video
03:37 — Montage
06:43 — Television
11:19 — Style/Content
14:01 — Outro

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