Before he loved anything else, Jean-Luc Godard loved genre: He famously dedicated his first feature film, “Breathless,” to Monogram Pictures, one of the monarchs of Poverty Row B-picture production.

Remakes of Godard’s work are a dicey proposition: his signature style is so maddeningly distinct that a reimagining sounds unnecessary (not many people even remember the Richard Gere-starring remake ...

A long overdue digital restoration of my favorite Jean-Luc Godard film, the glorious 1965 black-and-white surreal sci-fi noir “Alphaville,” starring Eddie Constantine, Godard’s wife Anna Karina and ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s hard-boiled sci-fi movie from 1965 returns in a restored version at IFC Center. By J. Hoberman Cinephiles of a certain age have a Jean-Luc Godard film that when first seen, blew ...

Which near-future dystopian city would you rather live in — the rainy, colorfully weird Los Angeles of “Blade Runner” or the black-and-white chicness of Paris? Decide for yourself as Ridley Scott’s ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

A film from out of the past, set in the future, and more than ever concerning the present — that can only be “Alphaville,” Jean-luc Godard’s 1965 sci-fi detective story and a work that rages against ...

“Alphaville” was both a complete revelation and yet not so vaguely familiar. This exotic product of the French new wave washed across the shores of my youthful consciousness, mingling the familiar ...

At a time when 10,000 of the world's leading physicists are holed up in a Swiss bunker engaged on a project that may one day enable them to pretend they understand the nature of the universe, ...