Episode 117
Jean-Luc Godard's Week-end
Supercontext: an autopsy of media · Charlie Bennett
August 10, 20181h 30mExplicit
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Show Notes
This 1967 movie was called "the death of cinema" by its creator, and operated as a critique of both capitalism and mainstream films. We try to understand how a man as notoriously malicious as Godard was to his cast and crew, could also use this platform to argue for a better world.
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- The Magic Christian
- Trouble Every Day
- Guido Crepax
- Ravenous
- Maximum Overdrive
- Jim Jarmusch
- Hal Hartley
- David Cronenberg
Additional Resources:
- Revolution & Car Crashes: 5 Things Learned About Jean-Luc Godard's 'Weekend' From The Criterion Collection's New Release
- Are You in a Film or in Reality? Jean-Luc Godard's 'Weekend' Will Have You Wondering
- Jones, Kent. Sight & Sound. Feb2016, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p46-51. 6p. 5 Color Photographs, 5 Black and White Photographs.
- Flashback: Weekend – Jean-Luc Godard's assault on bourgeois values from 1967
- Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
- Two Weeks with "Weekend"
- Breaking The Rules - The French New Wave
- Godard's Comic Strip Mise-en-Scène