Museum of Art and Design
2 Columbus Circle
212.299.777
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Alphaville
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July 11, 2009 – Aug 30, 2009
Saturdays–Sundays (2 & 4pm)
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- Price
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$11
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As with best-loved athletes, certain last names can be tonic: Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Chabrol, Demy. It's been a half-century since the French New Wave auteurs — sick and critical of the fusty cinéma de papa being manufactured on home soil — issued a series of heady, change-of-pace debuts. This canonical series includes chef d'oeuvres like Agnès Varda's by-the-moment beauty Cleo 5 to 7 and Eric Rohmer's exquisite My Night at Maud's, plus two trailblazers in Jean-Pierre Melville's all-or-nothing noir Bob Le Flambeur and Roger Vadim's Bardot-baring And God Created Woman. Of the five Godards set to unspool, the must-see is Alphaville, in which the future is rendered a hardboiled, sci-fi netherworld.
