--- "E. Borgers" <
webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Maybe I understood wrongly what you said
about
> Elevator to the Gallows, but I do not see in
what
> aspect it is the "last" of somthing in film
history.
We disagree on such a tiny level but let me clear up what I
mean. While I like the work of Louis Malle a great deal, he's
not exactly an innovative filmmaker in the way that
Jean-Pierre Melville or Jean-Luc Godard are. Le Samourai by
Melville is a standard noir story told in a remarkable way.
Godard's Breathless takes American crime films and dances
down the boulevard with them. (And even more so in Band
Apart.) Elevator to the Gallows is also a standard noir
told
-- for the most part -- with excellent cinematography and
music but based far more in conventional filmmaking than
Melville, Godard or many of the New Wave directors. Malle
seems to have been swept away by the New Wave and did most of
his more memorable films later in his life.
That's all that I meant.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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