--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, William Ahearn
<williamahearn@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- Jacques Debierue <matrxtech@...>
wrote:
>
> >
>
> > You can´t say it was all over by 1955, that´s
not
> > true in literature
> > or in film. A film like Coppola´s _The
Conversation_
> > is pure noir, yet
> > is not an hommage to anything, it is a
late
> > seventies noir story.
>
> We totally disagree. And that's good. But that
"The
> Conversation" isn't a hommage to anything is
clearly
> misstated. It is -- without question or doubt --
a
> hommage to Antonioni's "Blow Up." Do you want
to
> suppose that "Blow Up" is also noir?
Certainly, as is the Julio Cortạr short story on which it is
based. Both _Blow Up_ and _The Conversation_ are noir
according to me. But the value of a movie is not in its
category but in the movie itself, so the discussion may be
futile. I just want it on the record that don't see 1955 as
the end of noir at all. I don't think noir has ended or will
end, though it goes through changes like everything
else.
Best,
MrT
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