Movie Poster of the Week: Georges Franju’s “Nuits rouges”
Adrian CurrySome wildly different posters, and some marvellous ephemera, for Franju’s final film maudit.
Some wildly different posters, and some marvellous ephemera, for Franju’s final film maudit.
Also: Césars and BAFTAs. And passings.
Above: An heir is electrocuted by an arc light. Smoking. Pleins feux sur l'assassin, (loosely, "Open Fire at the Killer") is the 1961 film directed by Georges Franju and written by the team of Boileau
Some films, and filmmakers, just can't catch the right kind of breaks as far as international reputation goes. A very smart United States distributor circa 1959 or '60 or so, recognizing this film's
The films of Georges Franju are full of sleepwalkers, automatons, and prisoners.