Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
Direction
Godard's deliberately alienating framing mirrors his entire philosophy.
Writing
Allen improvises anxiety while Godard reads prepared statements.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard shot this in one day at the Ritz-Carlton during the 1986 New York Film Festival, having previously canceled twice.
This meeting represents French New Wave confronting American auteurism—Godard the theorist vs Allen the practitioner, with neither willing to concede ground.
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