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
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William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> a 飲it :
--- Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
> To me, anyway, this subject isn't off topic at
all.
> Hell, Bee-Bop Jazz is the sound track to
noir.
All one has to do to be convinced of that is to see Louis
Malle's Elevator to the Gallows with that fabulous sound
track by Miles Davis. Miles Davis composed the music for the
film and would watch sections and create the tunes. The film
might be considered the last "classic" noir from the
French.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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