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Hailed today as a modern classic, Shoot the Piano Player is a pluperfect example of a film “ahead of its time.” Based on a novel by David Goodis (an American “pulp” writer beloved by the French), it tells of an introverted pianist who after his wife’s suicide (an event for which he holds himself responsible) forgoes a promising ...
In Down There, aka Shoot the Piano Player, a honky tonk piano player in a dive bar is caught up in his criminal brother’s schemes and has to help him lose a pair of gangsters who’re hunting him. Meanwhile he falls for the bar waitress and has to keep her safe from his suddenly dangerous life.
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Apr 11, 2013 · Francois Truffaut's "Shoot The Piano Player" -- A Brief Analysis. After a year of the appearance of both "400 Blows" and "Breathless", Truffaut chose to adapt a short novel by American crime writer David Goodis. The film is Truffaut's unconventional take on crime genre titled "Shoot the Piano Player" (Tirez sur le pianiste, 1960).
Jul 31, 2014 · Cue Shoot the Piano Player and Goodis’s downbeat tale of a once-famous musician, who is now playing tacky fare in a rank-and-file bar, was the perfect vehicle through which the director could put these desires into effect.
Nov 2, 2016 · When Truffaut filmed the novel, as Shoot the Piano Player, in 1960, he didn’t go full Chaplin—you never go full Chaplin—but he heightened both the humor and the pathos of Goodis’s low-down Philly noir. Shoot the Piano Player relocates the story’s action to Paris (and, late in the film, a snowy patch of French countryside), adds a ...
Dec 5, 2005 · If there is a skeleton key to Truffaut’s oeuvre, it is Shoot the Piano Player, the film in which all of his assorted gifts and preoccupations are in play and meshed into a uniquely idiosyncratic whole. The film offers powerful evidence of his love of American cinema and literature (this is far and away the most successful of his five ...
Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself.
