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...third annual New York Film Festival held at Lincoln Center two years ago, came close to becoming important event in the international film world. Like the festivals at Cannes or Venice, it provided a survey of the most recent masterpieces established directors, such as Godard, Kurosawa, Visconti, Ray, and Dreyer. In addition, the New York showing introduced much fresh talent. Three brilliant Eastern European directors, Jan Kadar and Milos Forman from Czechoslovakia and Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, had their American debut at the Festival...
...Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt), presently riding the crest of the New Wave, began the festival with his most recent film, Alphaville. His hero, Lemmy Caution, is a cross between Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon, spiced with a touch of Humphrey Bogart. (At one point we catch Caution reading The Big Sleep.) Godard lets his imagination run wild as his comic-strip hero battles the computer-king of a super-mechanized science fiction city. Neon signs flash mathematical formulas across the screen, and the computer growls instructions from what looks like a CBS recording studio...
...Godard's point will probably escape his American audience. For the city of Alphaville is not just any city of the future; it is Paris, perverted by Americanization, the city of light turned fluorescent. A mad scientist from New York, Dr. Von Braun, has imposed the computer on the helpless Alphavillians. Only another New Yorker, like Caution, can cope with such an environment...
...Married Woman is the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who shook up the movie world five years ago with Breathless, and has made eight far-out features since−notably My Life to Live and A Woman Is a Woman. In this, as in most of his other films, he exhibits an irresistible weakness for obtrusion, visual puns, inside jokes and all sorts of self-indulgent photographic whimsies, such as irrelevantly shooting a sequence at a 90° tilt...
...sociological tract on the mechanization of modern middle-class sex, Charlotte's switching between husband and lover like a couple of television channels gets a little redundant. But Godard's clear-eyed camera work−studying the play of character on a talking face, catching the choreography of everyday life−is worth watching. So is the sly felinity of Actress Macha Meril...