godard &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:godard @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:00:26 +0200 Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/alphaville-une-etrange-aventure-de-lemmy-caution-1965 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" AI Appreciation Day/div div class="img" Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)/div div class="caption" Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina) and Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine). Lights reflected in the windowpane that shields the two characters suggest “the existence of an obscure reality” (after Baudrillard). DP: Raoul Coutard../div div class="txt" Science fiction, of course, doesn't have to be driven by grandes effects, by superstar names and monumental backdrops. It can be cool, dry, colourless even. The hero, in trenchcoat and fedora, traverses a lightless city. There are few others at this time of night. The familiar landmarks of the City of Light become the voice of 𝛼-60, an artificial intelligence that presides over Alphaville.\ 𝛼-60: "Do you know what illuminates the night?" Lemmy Caution: "Poetry." ### – 𝛼-60 playing the imitation game with Lemmy Caution\ ##### Based on a poem by Paul Éluard, #Godard's Alphaville bears similarities with Jean #Cocteau's Orphée (1950), transported to a mirror world of sorts. It also foreshadows not only our time, but also M. Hulot's, whose #Tativille could be the simulacra of 𝛼-60's simulated, dehumanised world./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ArtificialIntelligenceAppreciationDay #JeanLucGodard #PaulÉluard #EddieConstantine #AnnaKarina #AkimTamiroff #JeanPierreLéaud #HowardVernon #PaulMisraki #RaoulCoutard #ScienceFiction #TuringTest #FilmNoir #NouvelleVague #SciFi #poetry #architecture #Paris #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

Jul

16

AI Appreciation Day

Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)

Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina) and Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine). Lights reflected in the windowpane that shields the two characters suggest “the existence of an obscure reality” (after Baudrillard). DP: Raoul Coutard..

Science fiction, of course, doesn't have to be driven by grandes effects, by superstar names and monumental backdrops. It can be cool, dry, colourless even. The hero, in trenchcoat and fedora, traverses a lightless city. There are few others at this time of night. The familiar landmarks of the City of Light become the voice of 𝛼-60, an artificial intelligence that presides over Alphaville.

𝛼-60: “Do you know what illuminates the night?”

Lemmy Caution: “Poetry.”

– 𝛼-60 playing the imitation game with Lemmy Caution

Based on a poem by Paul Éluard, #Godard's Alphaville bears similarities with Jean #Cocteau's Orphée (1950), transported to a mirror world of sorts. It also foreshadows not only our time, but also M. Hulot's, whose #Tativille could be the simulacra of 𝛼-60's simulated, dehumanised world.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ArtificialIntelligenceAppreciationDay #JeanLucGodard #PaulÉluard #EddieConstantine #AnnaKarina #AkimTamiroff #JeanPierreLéaud #HowardVernon #PaulMisraki #RaoulCoutard #ScienceFiction #TuringTest #FilmNoir #NouvelleVague #SciFi #poetry #architecture #Paris #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/alphaville-une-etrange-aventure-de-lemmy-caution-1965 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:10:09 +0200 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/vivre-sa-vie-film-en-douze-tableaux-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" Global Movie Day/div div class="img" Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)/div div class="caption" Nana (Anna Karina) crying in a dark movie theatre while watching Carl Theodor Dreyer's La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928). DP: Raoul Coutard./div div class="txt" ##### A fascinating overlap with The Savage Eye (1959), a film #Godard must have been familiar with in 1962.\ "Maybe I'll get into the movies." ### – Nana\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #GlobalMovieDay #JeanLucGodard #MarcelSacotte #MichelLegrand #CarlTheodorDreyer #AnnaKarina #RaoulCoutard #drama #prostitution #BookAdaptation #France #1960s/div /section ]]>

Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

Feb

11

Global Movie Day

Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)

Nana (Anna Karina) crying in a dark movie theatre while watching Carl Theodor Dreyer's La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928). DP: Raoul Coutard.

A fascinating overlap with The Savage Eye (1959), a film #Godard must have been familiar with in 1962.

“Maybe I'll get into the movies.”

– Nana

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #GlobalMovieDay #JeanLucGodard #MarcelSacotte #MichelLegrand #CarlTheodorDreyer #AnnaKarina #RaoulCoutard #drama #prostitution #BookAdaptation #France #1960s

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