Alphaville with Eddie Constantine: DVD Cover

    Alphaville
    a.k.a. Alphaville, A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution, Alphaville, a Strange Case of Lemmy Caution, Alphaville, Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution, Tarzan vs. I.B.M. Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Laszlo Szabo

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/27/1998
    • Original Release: 1965
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 9,733

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    Side #1 --
    0. Chapters
    1. Logos [:28]
    2. Opening credits [:15]
    3. Agent from the Outlands [2:27]
    4. Seductress, third class [5:58]
    5. Natasha [5:28]
    6. Stupid questions [5:00]
    7. Can't hear the music [6:15]
    8. Dying words [4:15]
    9. The teachings of Alpha 60 [8:57]
    10. Deadly bathing beauties [7:04]
    11. The love of money and women [4:32]
    12. Professors Eckel and Jeckel [5:16]
    13. A guarantee to electrify [5:44]
    14. The meaning of conscience [8:28]
    15. Remembering Broadway [4:32]
    16. Natasha defines love [4:05]
    17. A man and a cup of coffee [5:25]
    18. Reporter and revenger [5:52]
    19. Escape [2:55]
    20. Rescuing the princess [6:29]

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    In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha (Anna Karina), the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60. Their love becomes the most profound challenge to the computer's control. Void of any flashy special effects, Alphaville uses 1960s Paris to depict the city of the future. Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

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    Godard's Link to Wm.S.Burroughs and Brion Gysin's 3rd Mindby Anonymous

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    August 17, 2000: This is perhaps my favorite of Godard's films because it is discernable and enjoyable on multiple levels. (Read the B&N Synopsis). However, what I really appreciate about this is how Godard seems to have been in collaboration on this with other parisians at the time, ex-pats William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin who were at that time publishing and discovering The Third Mind, The Cut-Ups and filming experiments and adaptations of Burrough's Naked Lunch. Godard masterfully employs these techniques and takes the ideas in his own directions. This is at once, amusingly humorous and entertaining, while also starkly thought-provoking. Godard's 1990 psuedo-sequel, Germany 90-Nine Zero, including a short by Anne-Marie Meilville, also recently helps to recontextualize Alphaville and its early commentary in Godard's oeuvre for a discourse on North-South Hemisphere politics, existential philosophy, dada and surrealist, or even situationist aesthetics. Its just a brilliantly masterful film.