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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nino_FrankNino Frank - Wikipedia

    Nino Frank (born 27 June 1904 in Barletta, Italy − Paris, 17 August 1988) was an Italian-born French film critic and writer who was most active in the 1930s and 1940s. Frank is best known for being the first film critic to use the term "film noir" to refer to 1940s US crime drama films such as The Maltese Falcon.

  2. A Life in the Shadow of Noir. The writer and critic Nino Frank was born in 1904 in Barletta, Puglia, in the far south of Italy, moving to Paris in the 1920s. He and his contemporaries across Europe grew up in what they would see as an increasingly mad world – corrupt, unfair, disorganised.

  3. Nino Frank and: 1 The French avant-garde; 2 The Italian journal "900" 3 The enemies of "900" 4 The magazine "Nouvelles littéraires" 5 The modernist journal "Bifur" 6 The film weekly "Pour Vous" 7 The newspaper "L'Intransigeant" 8 Welcome back to "Pour Vous", 1936; 9 Nino Frank and 'poetic' realism in French cinema; 10 Cinema under the German ...

  4. rememberninofrank.org › nino-frank-and › nino-frank-biographyNino Frank: Biography

    Nino Frank: a biography. Frank, Jacques-Henri (Nino) (born Barletta, Italy, 27.6.1904, died Paris, 17.8.1988) Frank’s parents were Swiss, his father had been in the wine trade in France and Italy and subsequently invested in a cinema in Puglia.

  5. In a remarkable case of cultural amnesia that overlooks France’s contribution to the genre, the French critic Nino Frank is credited with coining the phrase in 1946, in the excitement of discovering a batch of Hollywood noir movies banned during the war.

  6. Jul 23, 2014 · The documentation on the subject is ample and fascinating, as provided in a richly detailed historical post by M. E. Holmes at a Web site devoted to the French critic Nino Frank, who coined the...

  7. Nino Frank (Barletta, 27 June 1904 − Paris, 17 August 1988) was a French film critic and writer who was most active in the 1930s and 1940s. Frank is best known for being the first film critic to use the term "film noir" to refer to 1940s US crime drama films such as The Maltese Falcon.