Jean-Luc Godard's Week-end

This 1967 movie was called "the death of cinema" by its creator, and operated as a critique of both capitalism and mainstream films. We try to understand how a man as notoriously malicious as Godard was to his cast and crew, could also use this platform to argue for a better world.   Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: The Magic Christian Trouble Every Day Guido Crepax Ravenous Maximum Overdrive Jim Jarmusch Hal Hartley David Cronenberg Additional Resources: Revolution & Car Crashes: 5 Things Learned About Jean-Luc Godard's 'Weekend' From The Criterion Collection's New Release Are You in a Film or in Reality? Jean-Luc Godard's 'Weekend' Will Have You Wondering Jones, Kent. Sight & Sound. Feb2016, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p46-51. 6p. 5 Color Photographs, 5 Black and White Photographs. Flashback: Weekend – Jean-Luc Godard's assault on bourgeois values from 1967 Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Two Weeks with "Weekend" Breaking The Rules - The French New Wave Godard's Comic Strip Mise-en-Scène