Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 WEEKEND (or WEEK-END, if you prefer) is a scathing political satire if you understand what's going on, or a long strange trip if you don't. Your hosts have been on both sides of this divide, and today they come together to talk about seeing the film as a clueless undergrad; Tarantino and Wheatley as JLG fans and other films it influenced; the automobile and capitalist society; anti-colonialist speeches with sandwiches; a digression on the legacies of Hunter S. Thompson and Jann Wenner; Black Mirror, Get Out and other contemporary satires; and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll.

Weekend links:

• Weekend on IMDb
• Weekend on Wikipedia
• Roger Ebert review
• Pauline Kael review
• Renata Adler review
• Richard Brody review
• Criterion essay
• Columbia essay
• Pop Matters essay
• Senses of Cinema essay
• Ben Wheatley on Weekend
• Rolling Stone interview with Godard
• Sticky Fingers NYT review
• Solution to Lewis Carroll puzzle
• More Lewis Carroll puzzles

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