Mon. Nov. 13

Before there was HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey," there was the monotone voice of Alpha 60 in Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film "Alphaville." It's not an easy day at the cinema. We have an intergalactic secret agent, Lemmy Caution, (Is this where Motorhead's Lemmy took his name?) sent from the Outlands to Alphaville to meet up with Henri Dickson, another agent from the same place who's out of contact. Well, that's because Henri has become as obsessed by the physical as the rest of Alphaville. This is New Wave science-fiction, and an indictment of a society where the system makes the choices for the people and love is banished. As this is part of the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science on Screen"  program, Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology at Harvard will be there to talk about the interactions of law, science and politics in a democratic society.

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