Nino Frank

Nino Frank (* June 27, 1904 in Barletta; † August 17, 1988 in Paris ) was an Italian film critic with Swiss origins.

Frank coined in August 1946 the term film noir in his article A New Kind of Police Drama: The Criminal adventure game in which he went to American films of the 40s, due to an import ban until after the war, the way in which European cinema found. Among them were besides three classical Hollywood films also Double Indemnity (1944 ), Laura ( 1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941 ) and Murder, My Sweet (1944). In these four productions Frank believed a new brand of crime film to discover - one that basically put more attention to the characterization of the characters than the plot. He pointed to the use of voiceover, which fragmented the action and emphasized the " real-life " side of the film.

Nino Frank was also a writer and a translator. Noteworthy is his collaboration with James Joyce and Blaise Cendrars.

Life

Nino Frank was born in the southern Italian town of Barletta of Swiss parents, he moved in 1923, after years in the current conducted by Doctor Pluss Scuola Internazionale of Naples ( where Blaise Cendrars had also studied ), to France to. He remained there for life. Frank Nino is buried with his wife in the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris.

Works

  • Bifur (1929-1931, 8 issues).
  • Petit cinéma sentimental. Foreword by Henri Jeanson. Paris, La Nouvelle Édition, 1950
  • Les Années 30 (1969 )
  • Mémoire brisée. Paris, Calmann - Lévy, 1967
  • Le Bruit parmi le vent. Paris, Calmann - Lévy, 1968.
  • 10.7.2. et autres portraits. Souvenirs. Maurice Nadeau / Papyrus, 1983
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