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Jean-Pierre Melville
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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 tribut…
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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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jean-Pierre Melville's Filmography
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Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
as Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Melville, le dernier samouraï
as (archives)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
as Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville
as Self (archive footage)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
as Himself
No Poster
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
as Self - Interviewee
Bluebeard
as Clemenceau's Aide
Le Combat dans l'île
as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
Sign of the Lion
as Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Breathless
as Parvulesco the Writer
Two Men in Manhattan
as Moreau
A Girl in a Pocket
as Commissioner
Bob le Flambeur
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Orpheus
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
as Narrator (uncredited)