FRANTIC
Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud / Elevator to the Gallows

A Man and a woman involved in an affair plot to kill the woman's husband, who is also the man’s boss. The apparently routine story is given a series of Film Noir twists and turns until the man finds himself involved in another crime he did not commit.

This was 25 year old Louis Malle's first feature film offering a tantalizing look at some of what would come from the New Wave. Decaë’s photography of the Paris landscape illuminates Malle’s dark story and shows why he was the Nouvelle Vague’s darling of cinematography. The Jazz music score, reportedly improvised by Miles Davis during a screening, feels totally spontaneous and adds an entire new dimension to what could have been only a standard murder-mystery-thriller.

Directed by Louis Malle. Script; Louis Malle, Roger Nimier. Photo; Henri Decaë. Music; Miles Davis. Cast; Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Poujoly, Lino Ventura, Yori Bertin.

France, 1957. 93min. Subtitled. Original French Dialog with English Subtitles. 1SBN 1-55881-283-0
$19.95

CALCUTTA

Louis Malle's journey through India's great city initially appears to be a simple travelogue of everyday sights and sounds; street performers, wrestlers, religious festivals, political rallies and so on. But the film's simplicity is most deceptive. Malle documents minute details of individual lives and situations- — poverty forcing Moslem and Hindu to live together; the emotional protests of a former government official who is left unemployed and outcast after contracting leprosy; the building of a skyscraper without modern equipment; rituals of life and death — and weaves them into an awesome tapestry.

Directed by Louis Malle. English narration by Louis Malle. Photo by Etienne Becker. Edit by Suzanne Baron.

France 1976. 99 min. Color.
ISBN 1-55881-537-6
$29.95

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