One night I rented "Elevator To The Gallows" from the liberry and was pleasantly surprised with it. It's a French film called "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" by Louis Malle that he made when he was 23. He had the genius balls to ask Miles to come to Paris and record with a band he had picked out. Miles and the band was asked to improvise to certain scenes and i think i remember reading he and the band watched the movie once through and then recorded all the music you hear in the film on the second watch through. Pretty all around amazing film and soundtrack/Miles Davis album. This is a classic cinema scene in the film when Jeanne Moreau walks Paris streets to Miles Davis worried that her lover has stood her up/left her. He is really stuck in an elevator at the time and in some deep shit with more than just her.
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