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Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In 2019, Clint Eastwood's RICHARD JEWELL took aim at two institutions — the FBI and the media — that were supposed to save America from Trumpism. We discuss one of the veteran auteur's most beautiful films, which is also one of his most loaded and ambiguous political hot-potatoes. PLUS: David Brooks' expensive meal, Doug Ford's about-face, and Jean-Luc Godard's film criticism. "David Brooks and the $78 airport meal the internet is talking about" by Timothy Bella - https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/09/22/david-brooks-newark-airport-meal/ See Will introduce THINGS (1989) at the Fox Theatre on October 3 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/the-important-cinema-club-masterpiece-classics-things/ Preorder Luke's new book "Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality," coauthored with Ed Broadbent - ecwpress.com/products/seeking-s…cracy-ed-broadbent TORONTO: See Luke and Ed Broadbent in conversation at the Toronto Reference Library on October 22 - www.eventbrite.ca/e/seeking-social…ets-713793665067 VANCOUVER: See Luke and Ed at the Central Library on November 1 - https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/650b36ea2d0219cf8b5cf95f Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan here as always with.
0:16.3	Luke Savage, welcome back, folks. And if you hear the patter of tiny feet throughout this
0:20.2	episode, we do have a small furry guest in studio with us today. So that's what's going on.
0:24.9	What's her name? Tell us about our third mic. Our third mic is Rosie, although, you know,
0:28.9	we brought her in as producer, and I'm hoping it should mostly just kind of be in the background.
0:33.2	Well, I've been reading Jean-Luc Goddard's collected film criticism again. It's in a book called
0:38.3	Godard on Goddard, an essential part of any cinefiles library. This was the film criticism he wrote,
0:44.2	mostly in the 1950s and 60s, before and in the early period of him being a filmmaker at
0:50.1	Caillet de Cinema in Paris. And, you know, this is a book that I dependably pick off the shelf
0:54.8	every six months at least and look through. And I feel like I've made a breakthrough with it
0:58.8	because he's not what you would call a rigorous critic. And so reading it can often be a frustrating
1:03.4	experience. Even if you look at some of the like footnotes, the editor or the translator will
1:08.3	sometimes say, yeah, we have, we don't know what he meant here.
1:16.2	But my feeling about Jean-Luc Godard's film criticism has always been that he threw a lot of stuff at the wall and there are at least 20 sentences in there that have permanently taken
1:20.6	residence in my brain and have changed the way I view art, or at least become part of the tapestry
1:26.0	of how I view art. None more so than when he said
1:28.4	of Jerry Lewis on the Dick Cavett show, he's more a painter than a filmmaker. You hear that,
1:33.8	and it's like insane. But then after a while, it sits there forever and you start thinking, well,
1:38.6	what does he mean by that? You know, he compares him to Chaplin, he compares him to Keaton, and you realize
1:43.8	how much of, you know,
1:44.8	what a director comedian does is compose the frame. And how do you tell, how do you tell a joke in the
1:49.9	cinematic frame? You know, I'd like to read two short passages from his film criticism about the work
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