Akim Tamiroff, Anna Karina, Eddie Constantine
A private-eye is rocketed through space into a city run by a dictator scientist, where individuality and love have been suppressed.
DVD Release Date: October 20, 1998
Stats: 624 reviews
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April 21, 2008
In "Alphaville" Jean-Luc Godard has created his vision of a world where technology dominates society. Alpha 60 controls not only how people behave, but also how they think. Free will has been replaced by the cold efficiency of computerized logic, and people no longer ask question...( read more)
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November 21, 2009
This is a movie selected from the Criterion Collection, Spine NO #25, so its an early pick. Movie was filmed in 1965 a French entry. Most say this is a Sci-Fi Movie, didn't appear that way to me. Kind of a Orwell 1984 type movie, A man who appears to be a secret agent named Lemmy...( read more)
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October 16, 2009
"Time is the substance of which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along. But I am time. It's a tiger, tearing me apart; but I am the tiger."
ALPHAVILLE, UNE ÉTRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION (1965)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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October 5, 2009
A spy from the outlands is sent to Alphaville to take out Omega 60, the computer that is running everything. In Alphaville artists and poets are executed if they don't manage to kill themselves in the suicide district and love has been suppressed.
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September 13, 2009
i know it is symbolic, but it is dumb. "Lemmy Caution" is a name? a quick drive from the center of the galaxy. I should stop.
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September 1, 2009
Boy, oh, boy. Here I go again: I love how the movie looks and feels, I like the cast very much and the whole "Brazil meets noir" thing Godard does. But, I'm sorry to say it, I just couldn't get into it. Yes, the same old excuse I use all the time that's starting to feel like some...( read more)
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