Streaming Thoughts: Alphaville

Happening on a movie I want to see in the assortment of streaming services I can access can feel a stroke of luck. When I came upon Alphaville on Kanopy, made available through a library in my area, that got my attention. Quite a while ago I read Jerome Agel’s The Making of Kubrick’s 2001, and some of the reviews mentioned Alphaville in the context of HAL 9000’s voice. Some time after that, Rick Worley’s “How to Watch Star Wars” included a good number of clips from the movie, at once suggesting it was another film Star Wars quoted and it quoted other works itself. I am conscious that in being more aware of Alphaville as “science fiction” than as “a film by Jean-Luc Godard” I might be out of my depth in trying to discuss it. At the same time, it was intriguing.
( In a distant time and place )