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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 '40s. 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. Career.
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.
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.
Nino Frank, reminding readers of his belief in the need for a “troisième dimension” of ‘reality’ in postwar cinema, went so far as to claim that the new Hollywood crime films could point the way towards the positive development they had all been seeking.
Dec 22, 2021 · (The coinage “film noir” is usually credited to the French critic and screenwriter Nino Frank, who in 1946 derived it from the “black” crime fiction of Marcel Duhamel’s Série noire publishing...
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.
Nino Frank was born on 27 June 1904 in Barletta, Italy. He was a writer, known for L'invité de la onzième heure (1945), Copie conforme (1947) and La nuit de Sybille (1947). He died on 17 August 1988 in Paris, France.
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