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 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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Jean-Pierre Melville
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Self (archive footage)
... 2024
Self (archive footage)
... 2023
(archives)
... 2020
Self (archive footage)
... 2019
Self (archive footage)
... 2018
Self (archive footage)
... 2017
Self (archive footage)
... 2011
Self (archive footage)
... 2010
... 1977
... 1971
Self - Interviewee
... 1966
Clemenceau's Aide
... 1963
Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
... 1962
Un Consommateur (uncredited)
... 1962
Parvulesco the Writer
... 1960
Moreau
... 1959
Commissioner
... 1957
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
... 1956
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
... 1950
Narrator (uncredited)
... 1946