This is a quick podcast, highlights from a panel
discussion I led at the Off Camera Film Festival in Krakow in 2009,
where Anna Karina was showing a selection of her films she made with
Godard and a few films she directed. If you don't know her, she made
some of the best films of the 1960s with Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul
Belmondo and other great French cinema icons. The films not only hold up
today as fresh and inspirational with old school genre stories (love,
crime, life) reinvigorated with an exciting, unexpected style. But you
realize how much of modern independent cinema has
learned/borrowed/stolen from the group, particularly the power of Anna
onscreen.
In this recording the fest made, one part of my intro is left out where it took me a second to get a hold of the fact that we were hanging out with Karina.
In this recording the fest made, one part of my intro is left out where it took me a second to get a hold of the fact that we were hanging out with Karina.
"OK - we are going to try to ask questions without stuttering..."
Anna laughs: "Oh come on..."
"But Anna Karina - you are Anna Karina."
Anna: "We are all just people here!"
I stopped dorking out after that.
Anna laughs: "Oh come on..."
"But Anna Karina - you are Anna Karina."
Anna: "We are all just people here!"
I stopped dorking out after that.
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photo by Hejer Charf
Bookends:
Cafe scene from Vivre sa Vie (1962)
Dance scene from Bande à Part (1964)
photo by Hejer Charf
Bookends:
Cafe scene from Vivre sa Vie (1962)
Dance scene from Bande à Part (1964)
