To commemorate the death of Jean-Luc Godard, we’ve assembled a panel to discuss his impact on cinema: returning guests Will Sloan and Ben Nash are joined by two new guests, the Southampton-based film writer and PhD researcher James Slaymaker, and in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Toph, friend of the show, francophile socialiste and Twitchstreamer.

We’ve all come to Godard from different directions and different parts of the world, and we discuss the effect his films have had on each of us, with a particular emphasis on Godard’s post-commercial film career after 1967: his radical Marxist tracts with the Dziga Vertov Group, his epic falling-out with François Truffaut, his “comeback” in the eighties that peaked when he tricked Golan & Globus into financing his 1987 experimental “all-star” practical joke King Lear for Cannon, his pivot to video criticism which yielded his epic essay Histoire(s) du cinéma, and the Late Style works Film socialisme and Le Livre d'image. 

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Meetin’ WA (Godard short film where he grills Woody Allen, 1986)

Selected Godard trailers:

Week-end (1967)

King Lear (1987)

Film socialisme (2010)

Goodbye to Language (2014)