Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Known for
Melville/Delon Au nom du père et du fils
Les rois de la comédie
Le Cercle rouge
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Thlípsi
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Belmondo, le magnifique
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Code Name: Melville
Their First Films
The Good Thief
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Un Flic
Le Cercle Rouge
Army of Shadows
Le Samouraï
Le Deuxième Souffle
Magnet of Doom
Bluebeard
Le Doulos
Le Combat dans l’île
Sign of the Lion
Léon Morin, Priest
Breathless
Two Men in Manhattan
A Girl in a Pocket
Bob le Flambeur
Cinépanorama
When You Read This Letter
Orpheus
Les Enfants Terribles
The Silence of the Sea
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Acting
1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
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Self (archive footage)