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 ...

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.

Remakes of Godard’s work are a dicey proposition: his signature style is so maddeningly distinct that a reimagining sounds unnecessary (not many people even remember the Richard Gere-starring remake ...

A long overdue digital restoration of my favorite Jean-Luc Godard film, the glorious 1965 black-and-white surreal sci-fi noir “Alphaville,” starring Eddie Constantine, Godard’s wife Anna Karina and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When Blade Runner came out in 1982, it sat at the center of a new genre: “Future Noir.” Ridley Scott established a world so similar and yet so foreign to our own that it felt like both a throwback and ...

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 ...

Alphaville is a place in a future that will never exist. It doesn't have the sci-fi shine of Star Trek or the grimy tech of Star Wars; the closest Alphaville gets to any other science-fiction film is ...

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.