Dave Nold ([info]cheapsurrealist) wrote,
2006-05-06 22:22:00
puppet show
"Jean-Luc Godard and Pauline Kael Talk About the Movies"

That was the title of the event I attended at the Marin Auditorium in 1980. I brought along a tape recorder to document the talk. Over the years I had lost track of that tape, but today I found it at the bottom of a box. After I cleaned the mouse poop off it I digitized it and tweeked the audio a wee bit. It's tough because Godard is soft spoken and Pauline has got a good set of pipes on her. My advice is to use headphones with one hand on the volume knob.

Here it is:
http://www.cheapsurrealism.com/sounds/godard_kael.mp3
Tags: film history, film theory, godard

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[info]jermynsavile

May 7 2006, 10:57:20 UTC 6 years ago

This is fascinating. Thanks for posting it. Godard has such a dry wit.

I've added you to my friends list, hope that's OK with you.

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 7 2006, 15:21:29 UTC 6 years ago

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks for adding me.

[info]masoo

May 8 2006, 15:07:15 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for this. An interesting transcript appeared in Camera Obscura in '82, and was reprinted in a wonderful book called Conversations With Pauline Kael, edited by Will Brantley. I say "interesting" because reading it while listening to the mp3 offers a fine example of what writers are up against when they transcribe interviews, especially when one of the speakers is talking in a non-native language.

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 8 2006, 15:30:14 UTC 6 years ago

I wasn't aware it had been transcribed. I'll have to look it up. You may have noticed that towards the end a few things get clipped. Don't remember why. I may have been running low on batteries and I thouhgt Kael was more dispensible than Godard,

[info]masoo

May 8 2006, 15:31:55 UTC 6 years ago

FWIW, in the book, the "debate" is listed as happening on May 7, 1981.

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 8 2006, 15:40:59 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks. I stand corrected. I should have waited a day to post it in honor of the anniversary.

[info]cityramica

May 8 2006, 22:16:46 UTC 6 years ago

you live in Berkeley? have we met? I used to live in Berkeley.

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 8 2006, 22:38:28 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah I live in Berkeley. Been here since 1990. Not sure if we've met though. I live down in "the flats", 10th and Dwight. When were you here?

[info]cityramica

May 8 2006, 22:40:55 UTC 6 years ago

i was only living there 2004-5...mostly near the Cal campus, on Channing and College.

[info]cheapsurrealist

6 years ago

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[info]stanleylieber

May 9 2006, 10:09:02 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks very much for posting this!

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 9 2006, 13:40:53 UTC 6 years ago

My pleasure.

[info]kaipfeiffer

May 9 2006, 21:53:54 UTC 6 years ago

just read that conversation in the godard interview book (from university press of mississippi) a few days ago ... godard just recently became one of my current obsessions, now beeing interested in exactly the things i hated about him before ... like it happens to me fairly often with the more important aquaintances in art. first creepingly surrounding the "maestro", mumbling "now let me lookagain at this pile o'crap just one more time, to see what i'm so pleasantly unenjoying about it" ...

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 9 2006, 22:12:38 UTC 6 years ago

I remember sneaking the tape recorder in, I think I had to sneak it in, can't remember. Any way I felt like a deadhead. I wonder if there is a network of people who trade godard tapes. "I got godard in englishtown, new jersey '77. Fuckin awsome. I'm glad I taped it because I passed out during the lecture. Woke up in my own puke. It was beautiful."

Anonymous

May 11 2006, 20:12:55 UTC 6 years ago

10th & Dwight?

McGee and Dwight here - hey neighbor! And thanks for the recording.


--cardindex

[info]cheapsurrealist

May 11 2006, 20:26:40 UTC 6 years ago

Ain't that somethin'. Howdy.
You're welcome for the recording.
See ya around.

Anonymous

June 4 2006, 03:31:20 UTC 5 years ago

i was wit u 4 dis, remember? i believe i was 2 hi to remember

[info]cheapsurrealist

June 4 2006, 22:10:30 UTC 5 years ago

Yes Jean-Luc I remember. And stop calling me at the office.

[info]neonnoir

March 11 2007, 10:08:41 UTC 5 years ago

Bless you for this.

[info]cheapsurrealist

March 11 2007, 15:19:32 UTC 5 years ago

thanks for the blessing

[info]dissention_1

June 19 2007, 04:10:02 UTC 4 years ago

You are amazing. I found this while doing a Google search and it made my night. Thanks so much.

[info]cheapsurrealist

June 19 2007, 13:45:55 UTC 4 years ago

You're welcome. Glad you liked it.

Anonymous

December 24 2009, 07:38:13 UTC 2 years ago

godard/kael audio

i also found this doing a google search and it almost made my day, but the link seems not to be good anymore. any way you could repost? thanks!!!

Anonymous

December 30 2009, 17:06:12 UTC 2 years ago

Re: godard/kael audio

no xmas present for me? :(

[info]cheapsurrealist

2 years ago

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