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Meetin’ WA

In 1986 Jean Luc-Godard interviewed Woody Allen for a short film called Meetin’ WA.

In 1986 Jean Luc-Godard interviewed Woody Allen for a short film called Meetin’ WA.

Filmed around the release of Hannah and Her Sisters, the French director asks questions though a translator.


Meetin' WA (1986)

Nonetheless, it’s a notable meeting of two cinematic minds and they cover some interesting subjects including:

  • The cinematic and literary use of titles
  • The differences approaches of Allen’s longtime DOPs Gordon Willis and Carlo Di Palma
  • Allen’s writing process
  • The ‘terrible influence’ of television on movies
  • Shots of houses in Hannah and Her Sisters (this one seems to stump Woody)
  • The inevitable disappointment of making a movie

Given the media storm that would engulf Allen in 1992, the opening question now seems ironic:

JLG: Are you afraid of the press?
WA: No, the press has always been good to me

> Meetin’ WA at the IMDb
> Jean-Luc Godard and Woody Allen at Wikipedia