Veteran cinematographer Frank Byers (“Twin Peaks,” “Boxing Helena”) is set to direct an indie remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film noir “Alphaville,” TheWrap has learned. Studiocanal and the director ...

Before he loved anything else, Jean-Luc Godard loved genre: He famously dedicated his first feature film, “Breathless,” to Monogram Pictures, one of the monarchs of Poverty Row B-picture production.

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“Alphaville” was both a complete revelation and yet not so vaguely familiar. This exotic product of the French new wave washed across the shores of my youthful consciousness, mingling the familiar ...

Anna Karina (l.) and Eddie Constantine (r.) star in Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 science fiction-film noir mashup "Alphaville." (Rialto Pictures) One of Hollywood's favorite shortcuts around a good idea ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 science-fiction drama and pastiche, “Alphaville” (which I discuss in this clip) is, among other things, an exemplary use of genre conventions and cinephilic references to ...

Alphaville has a very overdone plot, but back in 1965 it was relatively unique. In Alphaville, humans now live in a society run by a computer (Alpha 60) who has outlawed emotion and individuality. Our ...

Director Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville is another dystopic view of the future, and in this version, all expressions of emotion are considered obsolete horrors of a bygone age, and displaying ...

The blinking, eyeless gaze of Alpha 60 beckons the viewer into the city of Alphaville, a dystopian technocratic dictatorship. , a philosophical science-fiction film noir, combined two previously ...

A film from out of the past, set in the future, and more than ever concerning the present — that can only be “Alphaville,” Jean-luc Godard’s 1965 sci-fi detective story and a work that rages against ...