Welcome to “Not In The English Language”, a new weekly column from HeyUGuys. Each week a different film not in the English language will come under scrutiny. First up is Louis Malle’s 1958 French ...
You likely know “Ascenseur pour l’échafaud” as one of Davis’ final albums. The French film (known as “Elevator to the Gallows” in the U.S.) wasn’t exactly a blockbuster. But Davis and his band ...
Just a reminder that Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, a 1958 film noir by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and featuring a soundtrack by Miles Davis, will be shown this afternoon (Sunday, July 4) at 5 ...
How’s this for an overture? Julien (Maurice Ronet), a former paratrooper in the Foreign Legion, kills the shadowy industrialist husband of Florence (Jeanne Moreau), his lover. There are no witnesses ...
The French “new wave” loved the Hollywood crime movies of the ’40s, with their perennially wet streets, shadowy velvet cinematography, antiheroic leading men and amoral leading ladies. In 1957, Louis ...
Known in English as Elevator to the Gallows, this 1958 French crime film is notable for three reasons: The movie, directed by Louis Malle, launched French new wave cinema. It stars Jeanne Moreau, one ...