I'm french but I don't like Truffaut movies, except "the
bride wore blanck" and "Vivement dimanche", because they
tryed to be noir movies. But Truffaut films are essentialy
sentimental movies, love stories, things like that. I'm not
interesting by love stories; i really do love Noir,
hard-boled, crime stories. And fron the French new wave, i
think that Claude Chabrol is more interesting.
Woody Allen is very loved in France. he gets a
lot of fans. I liked his first movies, which are not crime
stories but very funny movies. I liked a lot "Mysterious
murders of Manhattan", but after that one all the movies he
made are easly made. He works like a factory: one year one
movie. But it's not with just a good idea you can make a good
movie, even you are Woody Allen. Now, I stop to see his
movies: to much desapointed.
To answer to the question about favorite crime
stories between the 30' to 60', perhaps Black Alibi by
Woolrich (and also "Rendez-vous in Black") and, the Fench
title (I'm sorry, I dont know the original!) "la reine des
pommes" by Chester Himes wich was adapted for the cinema,
named "Rage in Harlem" with Forrrest Witaker.
Some filmaker I love is Takeshi Kitano. In my
opinion "Hana-bi" is one of the strongest, cleverest, most
beautifull movies I've ever seen. Japanese and Chinese noir
movies are very good. they inspired a lot of american
filmmakers: "Reservoir dogs" by Tarantino, movie and filmaker
i like very much, is an adaptation ok a movie by Johnny To,
for instance.
Best
Fabienne
William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> a 飲it :
--- jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Given that I see
> Truffaut's work as a
> continuum, I have to judge it great, just
like
> Allen's or Bergman's
> work. A total auteur.
>
As in making the same movie over and over again? I'm not a
great fan of Bergman but I recognize an intelligence at work
that I don't appreciate as much as others. As much as I don't
like Truffaut, putting him on a par with Woody Allen is
insulting in the extreme. Woody Allen is a fluffy joke, a
charlatan, a poser and a fraud. And that has nothing to do
with his personal life as I really like much of Roman
Polanski's work so let's not go there. Woody Allen, to me, is
like imitation banana flavoring: tinny, sickly sweet, and
nothing like the real thing.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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