The most prolific of French filmmakers and ex-New Wavers, Jean-Luc Godard, has come up with an adventurous-philosophical pic with this one. He takes a popular actor and uses his screen personage in a ...

There is not a more intoxicating loading dose of uncut movieness available on screens at the moment than Jean-Luc Godard's famous hyper-sci-fi-meta-noir, which skylarks about an absurd dystopian ...

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 ...

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 ...

The blinking, eyeless gaze of Alpha 60 beckons the viewer into the city of Alphaville, a dystopian technocratic dictatorship. , a philosophical science-fiction film noir, combined two previously ...

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.

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 ...

“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 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 ...

Three amazing movies are coming out for Thanksgiving - you'll have a tough time choosing! Read the descriptions to help you decide which ones you want to see. What's new on Netflix December 2025 and ...