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The key to understanding Jean-Luc Godard's *Alphaville* is to realize that it is first and foremost a spoof. It spoofs nearly everything it touches: science fiction; comic-books; George Orwell; Aldous Huxley; American private-eye movies; spy movies; technology in general and computers in particular; romantic love as presented in cinema. If you sit down to watch this expecting a high-minded piece of French New Wave cinema, you're going to end up being put-off. Those familiar with Godard will perhaps be less put-off. After all, when was this guy ever really "high-minded", anyway? Godard was the prankster of the "Cahiers du Cinema" gang.
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Alphaville was never meant to shock, depress, or disgust, and ... it seems as decorous and decent in 1998 as it did in 1965. And it is the work of one man, one recognizable man, not the work of a cynical, calculating committee. Indeed, the computer-controlled villains in Alphaville bear more than a passing resemblance to the bottom-line driven villains in the motion picture industry. To understand and appreciate Alphaville is to understand Godard, and vice versa. The shapely girl swimmers with knives for teeth and shark-like instincts for souls are an expanded version of Alexandra Stewart's bikini-clad shark in the Godard episode of RoGoPag, the episode Lincoln Center audiences hissed violently in 1963. Also from RoGoPag are the pills the population of Alphaville gobbles up like peanuts to retain tranquility in the absence of recollection.
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The Breathtaking Blue, co-produced by the venerable Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), introduces a new, suavely continental aspect to Alphaville's music. Gold's attempts to ape and mix Bryan Ferry, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie are appalling; the band's concomitant efforts to swing on a jazzy acoustic tree prove equally futile. Typical of Alphaville's haplessness, the album's best track ("Ariana") is an utter anachronism, a giddy echo of Abba-styled new wave pop. For those equipped with the proper equipment, the CD is graphics-encoded with hundreds of still photographs and illustrations.
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Ludlow claims that Electronic Arts banished him from Alphaville because his virtual newspaper, The Alphaville Herald, posed difficult questions. Electronic Arts says that Ludlow violated the terms and conditions he had agreed to abide by.
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It has been several years since Alphaville set foot in North America with successful sell-out shows in Salt Lake City. Now get ready for Alphaville's Canadian concert debut on October 27, 2007 at the Powerade Centre in Brampton (20 minutes north-west of downtown Toronto).
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For 18 years, Alphaville members create unique and wonderful music that never disappoints their fans. After their first big-hit in 1984, Alphaville has created such hits as Red Rose, Jerusalem, Romeos,etc.Both, Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd, have their solo-projects (Marian Gold under his name, and Bernhard Lloyd under the name "Atlantic Popes") with
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