A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)
Monday, October 17th at 7:30 PM
ALPHAVILLE
Starring Anna Karina and Eddie Constantine
Members $10 | Public $15
The Cinema Arts Centre pays tribute to legendary
filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022), with a big screen showing of Alphaville,
one of his most playful and influential works. This classic of the French New
Wave cinema is a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction. Lemmy
Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series
of French adventure films, travels from the Outlands to Alphaville, the
becalmed territory ruled by the computer Alpha 60 where “No one has
ever lived in the past, no one will ever live in the future, the present is the
form of all life.” His mission is to eliminate Professor Von Braun,
the creator of the almost-human Alpha 60. When Caution meets the scientist’s
beautiful daughter Natasha (Anna Karina), the forbidden, illogical power
of love opens the path to liberation. Without any flashy special effects,
Godard used the modernist buildings of 1960s Paris to dazzlingly evoke the city
of the future. Godard visually abstracted the Paris of 1964 by way of 1940s
Hollywood in order to foreground its smoothly engineered consumer-driven
impersonality. (France, 1965, 99 min., b/w, DCP | Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
