I second all this especially the place of this film within
the French and film noir history..Merci ɴienne
Montois
On 2/13/08 6:57 AM, "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.
> To the contrary it was, at the time( 1957), a rather
modern approach for
> filming a rather conventional crime story. The film
is far better than the
> crime story it tells. It inovates in form,
photography, editing and... music
> (jazz being the soundtrack music, and not only an
occasional support). it's
> also a classic, but of film noir history.This had to
be clarify especially if
> you refer to "classic" as "old style", "copying the
noir that were made
> before"...etc
> And more French classic noir (in the sense of
"tops"the history of the
> genre), fully innovative, you will also find in J-P
Melville works, most of
> them being done later than Malle's.There are other
French film makers of
> value doing noir films as well, all from the same
time period (ending during
> the late seventies).
> I
> Today, it's true, there is no noir films of high
quality in France anymore,
> and certainly none being innovative.
>
> E.Borgers
> POLAR NOIR
> http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir/
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