To cap off our Jean-Luc Godard series, Kevin and Cristian talk about Richard Linklater’s newly released Nouvelle Vague.

Linklater tells the story of how a young, maverick Godard made his first film Breathless, all the while alienating everyone who worked with him. It’s a fun, breezy and quirky work, not meant to be taken too seriously.

The boys discuss Guillaume Marbeck’s uncanny portrayal of JLG, and how this film fits into the wider filmography of Richard Linklater, who can be rightly described as a maverick himself.

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Jean-Luc Godard’s biographer Richard Brody calls 1987’s King Lear “the best film of all time”. After its Cannes premiere, the film screened for two weeks in the US, and then disappeared into obscurity for 15 years. A young Quentin Tarantino lied that he acted in the movie, believing that nobody would have watched it to know otherwise.

In the season finale to our Godard 80s series, Kevin & Cristian round off their discussion of King Lear by speaking to its reappraisal by champions such as the aformentioned Brody, as well as Criterion's recent remastering and re-release of the film, before some final thoughts on this long, strange trip.

We'll be returning soon with some bonus episodes on Richard Linklater's new 'Nouvelle Vague' and an obligatory Oscar's discussion, before we kick off our next season on the great PARK CHAN-WOOK.

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Jean-Luc Godard’s biographer Richard Brody calls 1987’s King Lear “the best film of all time”. After its Cannes premiere, the film screened for two weeks in the US, and then disappeared into obscurity for 15 years. A young Quentin Tarantino lied that he acted in the movie, believing that nobody would have watched it to know otherwise.

In the first of our final two episodes of our Godard series, Kevin & Cristian attempt to find meaning within this maddening, fragmented anti-adaptation of Shakespeare. The project began when Godard signed a US$1 million contract on a napkin with Israeli film producer Menahem Golan, whose Cannon Group was known for the Death Wish series, Chuck Norris flicks, and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Out of this unlikely partnership, King Lear is born: “A FILM ABOUT NO THING”, which on paper, follows William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth as he searches for his ancestor’s work in a post-Chernobyl cultural wasteland. Is this all one big troll by Godard? Is it an act of artistic self-immolation?

Featuring Norman Mailer, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Leos Carax, and even Woody Allen, 1987’s King Lear is certainly one of the strangest films ever made.

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