#203 - Everything's Just Great

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After the upheaval of 1968, Jean-Luc Godard said goodbye to commercial cinema to create a new kind of radical Marxist filmmaking. With TOUT VA BIEN (1972), Godard and his filmmaking partner Jean-Pierre Gorin tried to meet the audience halfway. Taking place in a moment when the student protests, the French New Wave, and even Godard's own militant phase were receding from view, this fascinating Brechtian exercise starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand may or may not have room for optimism. PLUS: bold predictions about the incoming Biden administration, and the politics of another cinematic legend: James Bond. Check out our Patreon for exclusive bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan,
0:03.0	I'm Will Sloon, here as always with.
0:20.0	Luke Savage, welcome back everybody and happy inauguration week.
0:24.1	By the time you're listening to this, the coronavirus will be over, the Trump era will be over.
0:29.6	The kids in cages will be free.
0:31.7	Speaking of decaying institutions, this week I revisited the last James Bond movie, Spector.
0:38.2	Is that really a decaying institution?
0:40.2	I like the new James Bond movies, actually.
0:42.6	It's not James Bond that's decaying so much as the institutions that he represents.
0:47.7	Whoa.
0:48.7	I watched Spector recently, and I watched Skyfall recently.
0:52.5	And I also watched The World is Not Enough with
0:54.7	Pierce Brosnan. Less said about that one the better. Well, I was going to say if we ever do
0:59.0	a Bond film on the podcast, which I actually think we should, we should avoid all of the Daniel
1:03.7	Craig ones because they're actually just kind of fun and entertaining movies, whereas the Pierce
1:07.8	Brosnan ones are incredible. And I don't mean in a good way. I mean,
1:11.3	I remember watching those kind of age 12 and being like, wow, this is so cool. Like, if you've
1:16.6	watched any from the Brosnan era now, they are so outdated. They are so of the 1990s. In a way,
1:21.8	they actually feel more outdated than like the ones from the 60s and 70s. I actually think
1:27.1	that Die Another Day might be my
1:28.8	favorite Bond movie just because it's so extreme. It's got everything you would want from a Bond
1:33.6	movie just cranked up to such an extreme. It has so many gadgets, so many stupid gadgets. They've even
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