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Alphaville

January 2026

  • Generation Z - GenricsBen Wheatley (Director)

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #227: A brain-melting sci-fi movie marathon, curated by Britain’s best cult film-maker

    As Bulk tours indie cinemas, its director reflects on the cinematic DNA​ and oddball influences that fuelled his most unconventional wor​k
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September 2022

  • Jean-Luc Godard shooting Le Mépris with Brigitte Bardot in 1963.

    ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute

  • 30 Nov 2010, ZUERICH, SCHWEIZ --- Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard during the award ceremony of the "Grand Prix Design", pictured on November 30, 2010, at the Museum of Design Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. (KEYSTONE/Gaetan Bally) --- Image by GAETAN BALLY/Keystone/CorbisEuropeMajesticSwitzerland

    Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91

December 2011

  • Shades of Orwell … Eddie Constantine (left) as Lemmy Caution in Alphaville (1965).

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Alphaville

    Richard Williams continues our writers' favourite films series with Godard's vision of a future state that has outlawed love

October 2010

  • Alphaville Anna Karina Eddie Constantine

    The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time
    Alphaville: No 14 best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time

    Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

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