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The Luddite Reader's "Top 12 Most Luddite Films of All Time"

What is the most luddite film of all time? The top 12? Maybe these questions have never come up, but here are the answers anyway. The most luddite film of all time is Godard’s Alphaville (1965), the only film in which the central character actually says, “Technology, hah! Keep it!” Alphaville also features the most luddite character name of all time: Lemmy Caution, a comic-bookish detective played by the durable, somewhat eroded Eddie Constantine.

(found at: http://www.altpr.org/apr14/luddite_films.html)
1. Alphaville - Criterion Collection
by Jean-Luc Godard
 
2. Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
 
3. A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection
by René Clair
 
4. Modern Times  
5. Frankenstein
by James Whale
 
6. Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)  
7. Fahrenheit 451
by François Truffaut
 
8. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
 
9. The Terminator
by James Cameron
 
10. The Gods Must Be Crazy I & II
by Jamie Uys
 
11. Brazil  
12. Robocop - Criterion Collection
by Paul Verhoeven
 
13. They Live
by John Carpenter
 
14. Gattaca
by Andrew Niccol
 
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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.