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Fascism On Film - Episode 18 - Alphaville
Episode 244
Wednesday, 30 September, 2026
Welcome to the eighteenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events.On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers sit down to discuss Jean-Luc Godard's sci fi tech noir film Alphaville, starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff. The film was released in 1965 and is something we would consider to be some of Godard's best work. It showcases the strengths and also some of the weaknesses of the iconic French New Wave filmmaker. Eddie Constantine plays the character of Lemmy Caution, a character created by English author Peter Cheyney. The character featured in many of Cheyney's books as an FBI Agent and then as a private detective. Lemmy travels to the futuristic city of Alphaville. He is a private-eye posing as a journalist. His mission is to find the missing agent Henry Dickson and to convince a Professor von Braun to come with him. The professor is actually Leonard Nosferatu and he has created a powerful computer/AI called Alpha 60. Alpha 60 has conceived the inhuman dystopian society of Alphaville. Aspects like love, conscience, poetry and even human emotion have been banished and words are systematically eliminated from the dictionary. Lemmy is assisted by Natacha von Braun, the professor's daughter. Despite Lemmy falling in love with Natacha, he is still steadfast on completing his mission in Alphaville.We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for more episodes of this Fascism On Film series.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review/essay on the Psycho Franchise.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
