Episode 728: Weekend (1967)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up for a journey through the absurd, anarchic, and audacious as The Projection Booth takes on Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend (1967). Hosts Mike White, Rob St. Mary, and Andrei Idu (who requested the episode via Patreon) dive headfirst into Godard's biting critique of consumerism, class, and chaos, dissecting the film's surreal narrative, infamous tracking shots, and unapologetically subversive tone. From the traffic jam to the revolutionaries, they explore how this incendiary masterpiece continues to provoke and puzzle audiences decades later.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.9	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Hey, Without getting emotional,
0:44.4	to declaim loud and clear
0:46.0	the cold and serious strophe you are about to hear.
0:49.0	Pay attention to its message
0:50.4	and defend yourselves,
0:52.2	for it will certainly be painfully seared
0:54.1	like a brand on your troubled
0:56.3	imaginations.
1:11.6	A-ma-na-ma-ma-ma-ba-ma-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- Ah! Ah! Ah! ... ...
1:12.6	... I'm excited. I'm excited.
1:28.3	You're excited.
1:29.3	You're in a film or in the reality. You're in the film or in the reality.
1:47.0	In a film?
1:50.0	In a film? You're a troumanteur.
1:52.0	You're a troumanteur!
	...

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