Alphaville Poster
My wife and I bought a house last October, and she, in a moment of being silly, allowed me to do much of the work in designing the rooms. For our living room, I’d hoped to draw / print a series of posters depicting some of my favorite films. The theme was going to be French post-war / new wave films (I did a disappointing Bob Le Flambeur after this one and gave that up), and I still haven’t decided what to do with them now. Perhaps I’ll do a spy film series, with the IPCRESS File and…something else.
In any case, here’s a poster for Jean Luc Godard’s classic postmodern spy/sci-fi flic, Alphaville. It’s one of my favorites, and if it’s one of yours, feel free to click for a super hi-res version that will print out at 11×17, suitable for wall hanging. Consider it distrbuted under whatever license means that you can print it out and hang it on your wall, but not swipe for the next Criterion release without giving me free Criterion discs.
Alphaville Poster, Art by Armstrong Sabian
That’s a really cool image. I like how you handled the lighting and color tones. It WOULD make a cool Criterion cover
I’ve been thinking about this film as I work on new pieces for Spy Vibe. Alphaville is one of my old faves, and I tell my students how well Godard was able to imply the sci fi-like setting by cropping shots around design elements… I need to re-watch it now 
I love the pool/assassination scene!
It’s been so long since I’ve seen Alphaville. I’d seen it several times over the seventies and very early eighties. One of my all-time faves. Many thanks for the excellent poster.
Thank you very much for the compliment, Emilio! I hope you find some use for it…I still haven’t printed one out for myself!
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That’s a fantastic poster design for a real cool film. I’ve used it in a post on my tumblr page and thought it only right to also add a link for your website. Thanks for sharing your super-fine work.
Fabulous, and thank you very much for posting this in hi-res.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE follow up on your thoughts for an IPCRESS FILE poster. One of my obsessed-about films.
Wow! I was looking for an “Alphaville” poster for my wall at work, and this is EXACTLY what I was envisioning. Thank you so much for making it available in hi-res! Love it!