{"id":11531,"date":"2011-04-11T04:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2011-04-11T05:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T04:49:34","slug":"meetin-wa-jean-luc-godard-woody-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/11\/meetin-wa-jean-luc-godard-woody-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetin&#8217; WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091504\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11532\" title=\"Meeting Woody Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Meeting-Woody-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1986 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Luc_Godard\">Jean Luc-Godard<\/a><\/strong> interviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woody_Allen\">Woody Allen<\/a><\/strong> for a short film called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091504\/\">Meetin&#8217; WA<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed around the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hannah_and_Her_Sisters\">Hannah and Her Sisters<\/a>, the French director asks questions though a translator.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xg1hk?width=560&#038;theme=none&#038;wmode=transparent\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xg1hk_meetin-wa-1986_news\" target=\"_blank\">Meetin&#039; WA (1986)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it&#8217;s a notable meeting of two cinematic minds and they cover some interesting subjects including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cinematic and literary use of titles<\/li>\n<li>The differences approaches of Allen&#8217;s longtime DOPs Gordon Willis and Carlo Di Palma<\/li>\n<li>Allen&#8217;s writing process<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;terrible influence&#8217; of television on movies<\/li>\n<li>Shots of houses in Hannah and Her Sisters (this one seems to stump Woody)<\/li>\n<li>The inevitable disappointment of making a movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woody_Allen#Soon-Yi_Previn\">the media storm<\/a> that would engulf Allen in 1992, the opening question now seems ironic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JLG: Are you afraid of the press?<br \/>\nWA: No, the press has always been good to me<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091504\/\">Meetin&#8217; WA<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Luc_Godard\">Jean-Luc Godard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woody_Allen\">Woody Allen<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986 Jean Luc-Godard interviewed Woody Allen for a short film called Meetin&#8217; WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[418,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}