Jean-Luc Godard and Breathless

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 155 minutes

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A few days ago we lost one of the most groundbreaking and influential directors in the history of Cinema, Jean-Luc Godard. It is impossible to exaggerate the effect his debut film, Breathless, had on the world of Film. From Peter Bogdanovich and Martin Scorcesse, to Quinten Tarantino, Wong Kar Wai and Steven Soderberg, Godard has inspired generations of filmmakers and it all began with Breathless.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a very special episode of The Sinophiles, where we are returning to
0:11.6	the world of the French New Wave, breathless and to the great Jean-Luc Godard, who we just
0:16.9	lost a few days ago.
0:18.0	My name is Steve Morris.
0:19.0	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:21.7	Hello, everyone.
0:22.7	My name is John Rochem, a voice over artist, writer, producer and host here in San Diego, California.
0:28.4	I'm a massive Jean-Luc Godard fan.
0:32.5	91 is a long life and so for me, when I heard the news, I wasn't overtly sad.
0:39.9	It's just like we know we recently lost the Queen.
0:43.2	It was more, and I know people can have their feelings about that, is more a matter of,
0:47.9	here's an icon who is gone now off the earth, and I felt that, that loss of someone who's
0:55.6	connected to something that for me was one of the formative movies in me becoming a
1:03.0	cinephile and then exploring how the French New Wave really changed cinema where we would
1:11.0	maybe not even have a cinephile if it wasn't for the French New Wave.
1:16.4	I know people like to have American exceptionalism about their directors, but if you go all the
1:21.2	way back, Godard and everybody involved in the French New Wave, remember, they were
1:25.6	film critics first, most of them, you know, writers, when they started creating their movies,
1:33.0	they were thumbing their nose at the factory approach to movies that they had seen in
1:38.6	the French and American cinema.
1:40.2	Now, it doesn't mean that there weren't incredibly classic, phenomenal music, Cis and Cain
1:44.8	and other films, Hitchcock.
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