“Alphaville” is pure pop in the form of gritty vérité — shot on high-speed, black-and-white film almost entirely at night and largely in the then-new Paris business district La Défense.

And the presidential election is set for this weekend -- in Alphaville, that is. Thousands of avatars live and work in Alphaville, a thriving online community with lots of issues.

The 1965 Jean-Luc Godard science fiction film 'Alphaville,' starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina, is rereleased. It doesn't seem to have dated at all.

Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the novel “The Devil Wears Prada,” on the summer before college, singing friends and Alphaville’s “Forever Young.” ...