Alphaville

Alphaville (1965) features scenes from Metropolis (1927), whose director, Fritz Lang, plays a film director in Contempt. In these ways, Godard’s films become intellectual essays: in them, the acted, experienced fictions of earlier motion pictures are transformed into the illustrative ideological cinema of the late…

Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965) turned Paris into an oppressive metropolis on another planet, and Blade Runner (1982) created a compelling portrait of Los Angeles in the year 2019.

…French films of the period: Alphaville and Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild), for Godard, and Jacques Rivette’s La Religieuse (The Nun).