Understanding Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard

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Zeos Greene

9 жыл бұрын

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1965, video essay made by Zeos Greene and Paige Dahlke.

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@Czechbound 7 ай бұрын

Saw it on the big screen last night at the prague French Film Festival. Really great, sold out screening.

@eleventhrealm8374 3 жыл бұрын

this is one of my favourite films - it's timeless

@hundredcaws 4 жыл бұрын

blade runner and alphaville resemblence is true. you nailed it. good work.

@michaelforthriller 3 жыл бұрын

it was hard to get used to the narrative style at first and also due to the fact that i had to watch it with English subtitles, but by the end it became very engaging and incredibly thought provoking.

@petecanthropus9947 7 жыл бұрын

Hi. There's a strong link between Alphaville and Jorge Luis Borges' ideas present in his essay-style books "History of Eternity" (1936) and "A New Refutation of Time" (1944-1946), the latter published a few years later, included in "Other Inquisitions" (1952). Indeed the Alpha 60's monologue "Time is the substance of which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along. But I am time. It's a tiger, tearing me apart; but I am the tiger" is a quotation from Borges.

@KHRAZARTS 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@JSTNtheWZRD Жыл бұрын

I must check it out, thanks - I just wish all my Borges books weren't in storage.

@gustavturefeldt3938 8 жыл бұрын

This is excellent, I love Godard, keep it up!

@killershark88 8 жыл бұрын

+Gustav Turefeldt Thanks! Should be making another video essay soon..

@sunlightpictures8367 4 жыл бұрын

Great commentary on this unique film. I've been a fan of Godard and inspired by him as a filmmaker for 25 years.

@user-mv8ge8nx6m 3 ай бұрын

Godard is a legend a great director and cultivate person he brought something new to the cinema rip

@sirjaunty1 8 жыл бұрын

Dammit. I was typing a comment outlining the very real allegory between Alphaville and Bladerunner. Then you go and do that right at the end. That will teach me patience to wait till the upload is over. Superb and articulate observation my friend. If this is part of a college course or diploma, then you are well on your way to merit status.

@mcopado 6 жыл бұрын

The Alphaville/Blade Runner connection has been well studied, I remember watching and discussing both in a college class on French New Wave Cinema in 87 or 88. Funny I stumbled onto this video because I actually felt like Blade Runner 2049 reminded me more of, and felt more like a sequel to this Alphaville than to Blade Runner.

@bramblebop1904 6 жыл бұрын

Yes! Quite a good observation.

@mauriceviel9 8 жыл бұрын

Very interesting analysis, thanks ! Alphaville is somehow comparable with a Jules Verne spy novel of 1880, "Les 500 Millions de la Begum": A totalitarian dystopy, where the monster machine is not a Bull computer but a huge Prussian cannon.

@kristianwhite2912 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic! What a joy to you discover and for me to unveil something truly amusing and quite enlightening. Thank you and keep it up!

@killershark88 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

@criticaltransfer425 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for making this video :) I really love Alphaville; but, you've really added to my appreciation of it! I particularly enjoyed your commentary on the editing and directorial intent.

@fredceely 7 жыл бұрын

Very nice lesson, professor. Thanks!

@afrendeiro 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Joe-ol5bq 4 жыл бұрын

MORE OF THIS !! YES WE LOVE A WELL DONE VIDEO ESSAY subscribed

@luzalvari 7 жыл бұрын

This was so helpful, thank you!

@theodorehebert6424 8 жыл бұрын

Great work, my friend!!!

@kulturindustrie5361 4 жыл бұрын

I love his films!!!

@ZeeshanAhmad-ig6gn 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing....

@5hiv4Hulk 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing commentary!!

@Entonces 2 ай бұрын

Nice job, thanks

@MonicaForrestall 7 жыл бұрын

Très intéressant!

@omarblanchfield6717 Жыл бұрын

A voice from the past spoke of the future, which is now the bleak present.

@timothysassoon1077 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent commentary

@jackr4507 Жыл бұрын

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero builds really well on Alphaville as a sort of sequel, just in Godard’s much later and more mature style

@k.t.5405 2 жыл бұрын

Alphaville = what Blade Runner 2049 should have been.

@louisaparker 6 ай бұрын

I tried to watch this movie, but had to fight sleep.

@blackbird5634 2 жыл бұрын

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

@Bazed. Жыл бұрын

Oh and forgot the blatant allegory of the cave and “The Republic” parallels (“enlightened” ai philosopher king ruling by the concept of the “universal good”, which in both Alpha60’s “mind” and Plato’s is technocracy/rule by absolute “logic”/quantification of life. e=mc2 symbolizes this idea in the film. Energy representing life in this case. More parallels abound but I’m not writing an essay lol. Thanks for the vid.

@paulmurphy42 7 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the actress who played Beatrice, the seductress? She isn't even credited in the film!

@bramblebop1904 6 жыл бұрын

Might be in Wikipedia or idmb?

@neoclassicism1 3 жыл бұрын

Christa Lang

@paulmurphy42 3 жыл бұрын

@@neoclassicism1 Thanks

@bramblebop1904 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, what is the significance of the Éluard book Caution gets from dying Tamiroff?

@phillipphil1615 2 жыл бұрын

One of Paul Eluard's most famous poem is liberté, written while France was under Nazi rule. It's a very powerful ode to the yearning for freedom. Sur mes cahiers d’écolier Sur mon pupitre et les arbres Sur le sable sur la neige J’écris ton nom Sur toutes les pages lues Sur toutes les pages blanches Pierre sang papier ou cendre J’écris ton nom Sur les images dorées Sur les armes des guerriers Sur la couronne des rois J’écris ton nom Sur la jungle et le désert Sur les nids sur les genêts Sur l’écho de mon enfance J’écris ton nom Sur les merveilles des nuits Sur le pain blanc des journées Sur les saisons fiancées J’écris ton nom Sur tous mes chiffons d’azur Sur l’étang soleil moisi Sur le lac lune vivante J’écris ton nom Sur les champs sur l’horizon Sur les ailes des oiseaux Et sur le moulin des ombres J’écris ton nom Sur chaque bouffée d’aurore Sur la mer sur les bateaux Sur la montagne démente J’écris ton nom Sur la mousse des nuages Sur les sueurs de l’orage Sur la pluie épaisse et fade J’écris ton nom Sur les formes scintillantes Sur les cloches des couleurs Sur la vérité physique J’écris ton nom Sur les sentiers éveillés Sur les routes déployées Sur les places qui débordent J’écris ton nom Sur la lampe qui s’allume Sur la lampe qui s’éteint Sur mes maisons réunies J’écris ton nom Sur le fruit coupé en deux Du miroir et de ma chambre Sur mon lit coquille vide J’écris ton nom Sur mon chien gourmand et tendre Sur ses oreilles dressées Sur sa patte maladroite J’écris ton nom Sur le tremplin de ma porte Sur les objets familiers Sur le flot du feu béni J’écris ton nom Sur toute chair accordée Sur le front de mes amis Sur chaque main qui se tend J’écris ton nom Sur la vitre des surprises Sur les lèvres attentives Bien au-dessus du silence J’écris ton nom Sur mes refuges détruits Sur mes phares écroulés Sur les murs de mon ennui J’écris ton nom Sur l’absence sans désir Sur la solitude nue Sur les marches de la mort J’écris ton nom Sur la santé revenue Sur le risque disparu Sur l’espoir sans souvenir J’écris ton nom Et par le pouvoir d’un mot Je recommence ma vie Je suis né pour te connaître Pour te nommer Liberté. Paul Eluard Poésie et vérité 1942 (recueil clandestin) Au rendez-vous allemand (1945, Les Editions de Minuit)

@bramblebop1904 2 жыл бұрын

C'est tres bon - merci, mon ami.

@alexioukaterina675 2 жыл бұрын

Are u a film student? This was so great I wonder

@IndieGuvenc 4 жыл бұрын

the first 30 minutes put me to sleep, maybe I have to give it more time? Subtitles didn't help

@timkuijlen6733 Жыл бұрын

I hope you can help my memory. I am wondering about a film, I think it is from Godard, where a guy is talking in front of train tracks. Then a train passes by with a lot of noise, and his monologue becomes inaudible, as if it is the most normal thing in the world. Anyone knows what film I'm talking about?

@claudenyspinelli8047 10 ай бұрын

in Pierrot le fou there´s a train scene with Belmondo, but i don´t know if that´s the one you´re talking about

@tolkorm 2 жыл бұрын

#bezos #musk #xmen #cicades

@matthewcalkins4979 2 жыл бұрын

2:12

@StratsRUs 3 жыл бұрын

Just another movie inspired by 1984.

@jondstewart 3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t this movie set in an alternate universe or another planet?

@michaelforthriller 3 жыл бұрын

alternate future / universe

@Bazed. Жыл бұрын

Technocratic scientism as an ouroboros symbolized by the spinning of the computer fan and the spinning of the computer tapes is a clear theme missed. The whole way Caution beat Alpha60 was by exploiting the flaw in its foundational logic. It can’t explain Telos; or the why. Nor can it justify itself or the “universal good” (logic) it claims to serve. I’d wager Godard was influenced by Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1951) paper.