film and architecture section: Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard, film and architecture appreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The Bartlett University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)
film index: 16

film: Alphaville
director: Jean-Luc Godard
writers: Jean-Luc Godard
production: France
release: May 5, 1965
playtime: 99 mins
visual: BnW
Language: French
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Genre: sci fi, film noir
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
size: 695 mb

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Alphaville is a 1965 black-and-white French science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Its original French title is Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution). The film stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon and Akim Tamiroff. The film won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival in 1965.

Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. Although set far in the future on another planet, there are no special effects or elaborate sets; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings represent the city's interiors. In addition, the characters refer to twentieth century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran.

Eddie Constantine plays Lemmy Caution, a trenchcoat-wearing secret agent. Constantine had already played this role in dozens of previous films; the character was originally created by British pulp novelist Peter Cheyney. However, in Alphaville, director Jean-Luc Godard moves Caution away from his usual twentieth century setting, and places him in a futuristic sci-fi dystopia, the technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville.

Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

imbd link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_%28film%29

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard, film and architecture appreciation

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