Some wonderful films on a lot of lists, but instead of
echoing what a lot of people have said, I'd like to stress
that IN A LONELY PLACE is a brilliant adaptation of the
Dorothy Hughes book, and if I hadn't neglected it the first
time around it would have been very high on the list. Anybody
claiming interest in film noir should see it. I have the book
but have not read it -- but I recall reading that there are
some significant differences between the two.
After all these American classics, take a look at where the
French New Wave and Italian neorealism took some of our
favorite books: PIERROT LE FOU
(Lionel White/Godard), BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Delores
Hitchens/Godard), SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (David
Goodis/Truffaut), OSSESSIONE (James M. Cain/Visconti). I
don't remember if Chabrol based his films on novels, but a
lot of those would apply too....
--Juha.
-- JT Lindroos wit's end publishing www.sendwit.com
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