Sunday, January 20, 2008
Coolness and Greatness: Elevator to the Gallows
I was given the Criterion DVD of Elevator for my birthday, but I had only looked at the extras, especially the featurette about Miles Davis and the creation of the soundtrack.
I saw this first when at college. I swear it was a bootleg print and group mind took over and dismissed it. I think in large order because we didn't get to hear enough Miles. Also, somehow it didn't seem "New Wave" enough and was hard to define as a Louis Malle film (whose films are pretty hard to categorize anyway)
But Wow! This holds up with the best of the coolest of French New Wave films from between when it was made in 1957 to about the time Godard hung out with the Stones and Truffaut did all his films in color. Great stuff. Intrigue, suspense, Jean Moreau! Hey I'm sounding like the trailer, which, in fact, I include here.
posted by well-executed buffet at 9:38 PM
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