Alphaville DVD Movie

Alphaville

List Price	$29.95 (You save $7.80)
Studio	Criterion Collection
Orig Year	1965
DVD Encoding	Region 1
All Time Sales Rank	7483
CD Universe Part number	1235667
Catalog number	30
Discs	1
Release Date	Oct 27, 1998
Rating	Not Rated
Also Known As	Alphaville, a Strange Case of Lemmy Caution; Alphaville, Une etrange Adventure de Lemmy Caution
Running Time	100 Minutes
Additional Info	Widescreen
Movie Details	B&W; Mono Sound; Dolby Noise Reduction; Digital Sound; Widescreen; Criterion Collection

Alphaville Movie Review

Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

3 stars Alphaville--for completists only
Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" is on the Criterion collection, which means that it costs at least ten dollars more than the average DVD. Usually with Criterion, you get lots of extras--sometimes, it seems, almost too many extras. With this DVD, however, you pay the price, and get no extras at all. As for the movie itself, it's a private eye caper set in the future, with the usual Godardian jumpy editing. At least the patron saint of chain-smoking, Anna Karina, is beautiful as always. Get "Contempt" or "Band of Outsiders" or "Weekend" first.
Submitted by twi-zon (Springfield, MO)
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5 stars Just imagination
Godard at his best. No necessary a lot of FX to make a good fiction film. It´s just imagination!!!
Submitted by pedrogz2 (Segovia, Spain)
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Alphaville DVD

Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Chapters:

1. Logos
2. Opening Credits
3. Agent from the Outlands
4. Seductress, Third Class
5. Natasha
6. Stupid Questions
7. Can't Hear the Music
8. Dying Words
9. The Teachings of Alpha 60
10. Deadly Bathing Beauties
11. The Love of Money and Women
12. Professors Eckle and Jeckel
13. A Guarantee to Electrify
14. The Meaning of Conscience
15. Remembering Broadway
16. Natasha Defines Love
17. A Man and a Cup of Coffee
18. Reporter and Revenger
19. Escape
20. Rescuing the Princess
21. Color Bars

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