RE: RARA-AVIS: Coup de Torchon etc. and French films


Martha Fischer (sakana@stlnet.com)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:32:21 -0600


i've actually just been researching the new wave for a film class i teach. according to a text book i read last night, made in USA is ostensibly a remake of howard hawks' the big sleep, with anna karina in the bogart role. however, the film is actually a mass of self-reference, and the plot is negligible at best.

sakana@stlnet.com <mailto:sakana@stlnet.com>

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But Godard made a couple of HB based films and this isn't usually discussed, even in books about Godard. "Made in U.S.A." is based on a Richard Stark novel ("The Jugger", I believe) and "Pierrot le Fou" is based on Lionel White's "Obsession". And "Alphaville" was very loosely based on Peter Cheyney's Lemmy Caution books or rather the French films with Eddie Constantine playing Caution.

Juri jurnum@utu.fi

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