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We strongly recommend watching À Bout De Souffle before listening to the episode - for many reasons that we get into in the episode, but mainly because it changed cinema forever. You can rent it on BFI player.

Films and TV shows referenced: 

À Bout De Souffle (1960) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard

Last Year in Marienbad (1961) dir. by Alain Resnais

Practical Magic (1998) dir. by Griffin Dunne

Southland Tales (2006) dir. by Richard Kelly

Donnie Darko (2001) dir. by Richard Kelly

Le Mépris (1963) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard

Bande à part (1964) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard

Alphaville (1965) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard

Tangerine (2015) dir. by Sean Baker

Following (1998) dir. by Christopher Nolan

When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. by Rob Reiner 

Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. by Quentin Tarantino 

Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. by Quentin Tarantino 

Mean Girls (2004) dir. by Mark Waters

Euphoria (2019) created by Sam Levinson

Breathless (1983) dir. By Jim McBride

Other sources:

Rubin Safaya, ‘À Bout de Souffle’, cinemalogue.com 

Jacqueline Wallace, ‘À Bout de Souffle by Jean-Luc Godard: How did it reinvent modern cinema?’, the-artifice.com

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