Saturday 4 June 2005, 19.00
Saturday 11 June 2005, 19.00
Saturday 18 June 2005, 19.00
Saturday 2 July 2005, 19.00
Saturday 9 July 2005, 19.00
Saturday 30 July 2005, 19.00

Jean-Luc Godard, France 1965, 98’, subs, cert 12A

Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville is a unique combination of high art and low fiction: Pop Art meets pulp in a technocratic setting that could easily be 1960s East Germany, but Alphaville is Paris 1965, a vision of the future, an urban hell of shadows and neon, all office blocks, corridors and electricity, where logic rules and emotions are punished by death. Alphaville is also a love story, not so much between the characters as between Anna Karina and Godard's camera, lighting and framing, which transform her into the Louise Brooks of the New Wave. With nods to Roy Lichtenstein, the French Surrealist poet Paul Eluard, Franz Kafka, George Orwell and Raymond Chandler, the expressive power of black-and-white film has never been more dramatically exposed than in Godard's sci-fi film noir. Alphaville is presented in a striking new print.

Chris Darke, author of the forthcoming book Alphaville, gives an in-depth introduction before the screening on 18 June.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 exhibition