Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film is many things: a science fiction film about a city under the grip of a totalitarian super-computer, the story of a hard-boiled detective, a low-budget experimental piece, and a philosophical meditation on modernity.
The origin of Alphaville lies in Godard's desire to work with French-American actor Eddie Constantine, famous for his portrayal of hard-boiled detective Lemmy Caution in a series of 1950s B-movies. Constantine was similarly enthusiastic about Godard, and during a meeting with a producer, Godard mentioned his idea of putting the Caution character into a science-fiction story like the one featured in Brian Aldiss's novel Non-Stop, about life in a vast spaceship the size of a city. It quickly became apparent that the special effects required would be prohibitively expensive. In looking to create a manageable project, Godard took inspiration from a short that he had contributed to the anthology film RoGoPaG two years earlier, The New World:
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