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Alphaville: French Film Guide
Chris Darke
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Description for Alphaville: French Film Guide
Hardback. Explores the film's combination of genres and styles, its remarkable creation the secret agent Lemmy Caution, and uses his interviews with the director's collaborators to chronicle the film's production. This book relates to Godard's later work, setting it in the context of his career and of its influence on other filmmakers and artists. Series: Cine-File French Film Guides. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
A striking black-and-white hybrid of film noir and science fiction, "Alphaville" (1965) is now one of the most enduringly popular of Jean-Luc Godard 's films of the 1960s. Working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard created a dystopian vision of a technocratic city of the future, which resonates with filmmakers today. "Alphaville" pits secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) against Alpha 60, the super-computer that presides over a city where weeping is outlawed, poetry goes unrecognised and the words 'conscience' and 'love' have ceased to exist. Lemmy's mission is to capture the renegade scientist Professor von Braun ... Read more
A striking black-and-white hybrid of film noir and science fiction, "Alphaville" (1965) is now one of the most enduringly popular of Jean-Luc Godard 's films of the 1960s. Working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard created a dystopian vision of a technocratic city of the future, which resonates with filmmakers today. "Alphaville" pits secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) against Alpha 60, the super-computer that presides over a city where weeping is outlawed, poetry goes unrecognised and the words 'conscience' and 'love' have ceased to exist. Lemmy's mission is to capture the renegade scientist Professor von Braun ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
Cine-File French Film Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845112189
SKU
V9781845112189
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About Chris Darke
Chris Darke is a film critic, writing for 'The Independent', 'Cahiers du Cinema', 'Sight and Sound' and others. He is the author of 'Light Readings' (2000).
Reviews for Alphaville: French Film Guide
'Darke's book is as timely as it is superlatively written and researched... as entertaining and pleasurable to read as it is incisive.' -Time Out 'Darke brilliantly shows how this is much more than science-fiction fantasy.'- Financial Times 'Illuminating... Darke's absorbing meditations never fail to engross. It is a style born of the poetry of Orpheus, not the ... Read more