a sci-fi noir that is both abstract and completely logical (get it?), alphaville is one of the most original movies i have ever seen. it is unbelievably beautiful and daring: scenes are multi-minute long, expertly coreographed tracking shots; yesses mean nos, and visa versa; characters don black, black sunglasses and blow bright white smoke, and the b+w negative is used; and an omnipresent, omnicient computer, voiced by a modded post-tracheotomy-esque voice box, narrates. somehow, it all works. perfectly.
classics scale: 8.5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/
alphaville (godard, 1965)
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