Hello, my name's Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And we continue our month of selling out.

And what is a bigger sellout than doing an episode on Jean-A-Guardard?

It's not really a sell-out topic, is it?

I think that people when they see

Jean-A-Gadard, they're like, oh, that seems interesting, because I know what that is. He's a brand name. Exactly. But we're not talking about one of his most famous things this week. We're pulling a bait and switch, just like Goddard himself does. Interesting. So, long-time listeners will know that John Lick Gadd was one of the subjects of one of our very first episodes. And we're returning to him all these years later because there's a monument that we have to tackle in his career. In 1960, Gadar revolutionized the medium of cinema with a little movie called Breathless.

But for the true Godard fans, his summit of achievement was Histoire du Cinema.

What is Histoire du Cinema?

Histoire du cinema is a multi-part essay film where Godard takes all of the movies that made an impact on him.

All the ones that he feels are historically valuable

and remixes them into not just a history of cinema,

but a way to perceive cinema itself.

Spanning from 1989 to 1997,

that's how long it took for him to put this magnum opus together.

I hope you like to see images over other images.

It runs eight episodes, totaling 266 minutes.

Each episode has a theme, although sometimes it's a little loose.

It's probably only really well known by people who are serious cinefiles, but to serious

cinefiles, its reputation is sort of similar to Finnegan's Wake for literature.

It's long, it's dense, it's difficult to understand, and to enjoy it, it helps to have a deep and lifelong bond with the art form.

I think it is necessary to enjoy it, because otherwise you will be looking at images going,

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