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I can well remember enjoying Weekend and of course, Sympathy for the Devil. Watched at Goldsmiths' College cinema with my girl of the time as I recall. (Actually, still with that girl!)
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Jean-Luc Godard RIP on 14:50 - Sep 13 with 1473 views
A Bout de Souffle - Breathless - absolute genius. Jean-Luc Godard, chapeau!
Little known factoid for you - a friend of mine, Cy Lester, now in his 80s, was living at the Beat Hotel in Paris (in the room above William Burroughs) at the time this movie was made, and making a living selling the Herald Tribune. The yellow Herald Tribune T-shirt Jean Seberg is wearing in the movie was his; the film crew were setting up and Godard spotted him selling the paper, and asked him if Seberg could borrow it. He was hardly going to say no, was he.
A Bout de Souffle - Breathless - absolute genius. Jean-Luc Godard, chapeau!
Little known factoid for you - a friend of mine, Cy Lester, now in his 80s, was living at the Beat Hotel in Paris (in the room above William Burroughs) at the time this movie was made, and making a living selling the Herald Tribune. The yellow Herald Tribune T-shirt Jean Seberg is wearing in the movie was his; the film crew were setting up and Godard spotted him selling the paper, and asked him if Seberg could borrow it. He was hardly going to say no, was he.
A Bout de Souffle - Breathless - absolute genius. Jean-Luc Godard, chapeau!
Little known factoid for you - a friend of mine, Cy Lester, now in his 80s, was living at the Beat Hotel in Paris (in the room above William Burroughs) at the time this movie was made, and making a living selling the Herald Tribune. The yellow Herald Tribune T-shirt Jean Seberg is wearing in the movie was his; the film crew were setting up and Godard spotted him selling the paper, and asked him if Seberg could borrow it. He was hardly going to say no, was he.
How stylish the world was back then!
Wow, what a story! My avatar is a photo of Jean Seberg from A Bout de Souffle. Her death at such a young age is a tragic story in itself.
Addendum to above: I emailed Cy about this earlier, and I've just seen his reply:
" - Not only is Jean Seberg wearing my yellow Herald Tribune jersey (she is), there is footage in the film shot at the Herald Tribune office, of a scene with J-L G filming, and familiar figures from them days - like Mr Gendleman my kindly office manager. (All I had to do was walk from the office with the 'addresograph' machine I was working - into the front office to be in J-L G's lens-eye. That morning I was in the building in rue de Berri (just off Champs Elysee) when the great kerfuffle was underway (I was told they were making a film) which meant I spent that morning sitting outside a cafe with the Herald Tribune's most illustrious humourist-writer - a huge fat guy - Art Buchwald. Full of questions was Art - and I had plenty to say. He became very interested in my tales of life in the Beat hotel (which he followed up by interviewing Gregory Corso & wrote a 'knock piece' for the folks back home). When you are from Fareham, you never know when you are in the avant-garde of events ... until decades later. That was just one more day."
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