1917-10-20 ( 107 years old ) in Paris, France
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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Les Rois de la comédie
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Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020-03-29
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019-05-07
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018-02-04
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017-09-03
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
2011-01-31
Code Name: Melville
2008-11-15
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
1971-07-16
Bluebeard
1963-01-25
Le Combat dans l’île
1962-08-16
Sign of the Lion
1962-05-03
Breathless
1960-03-16
Two Men in Manhattan
1959-10-16
A Girl in a Pocket
1957-11-06
Bob le Flambeur
1956-08-24
Orpheus
1950-09-29
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
1946-01-01
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