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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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Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Les Rois de la comédie
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Belmondo, le magnifique
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Code Name: Melville
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Bluebeard
Le Combat dans l'île
Sign of the Lion
Breathless
Two Men in Manhattan
A Girl in a Pocket
Bob le Flambeur
Orpheus
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown