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Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French:), 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.
Jean-Pierre Melville. Writer: Le Samouraï. The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous.
Aug 24, 2015 · Born Jean-Pierre Grumbach and adopting the moniker “Melville” after his favorite American author, he fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII, and started making independent films ...
Jean-Pierre Melville (born Oct. 20, 1917, Paris, France—died Aug. 2, 1973, Paris) was a French motion-picture director whose early films strongly influenced the directors of the New Wave, the innovative French film movement of the late 1950s.
One of the very few filmmakers we deeply cherish above almost all others and whose work we hold in the greatest esteem is Jean-Pierre Melville, the highly influential French filmmaker who reached his peak in the sixties, and succumbed to a heart attack at the age of only fifty-five.
Apr 24, 2017 · Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinema of Resistance. His films are illuminated by what he saw when France was ruled by oppression and ordinary people had to decide what, or whom, they would obey....
Jean-Pierre Melville directed his most well-known film, Le Samouraï, in 1967. This sublime noir masterpiece is quintessential Melville, representing the distillation of his technique (with a remarkable eye for detail) and his philosophy (honour before everything).
Aug 1, 2017 · The Stetson-wearing godfather of the French crime film, Jean-Pierre Melville has a very particular reputation as a tough-guy purveyor of genre cinema. His macho gangster films of the 1960s and 70s often met with huge commercial success, but detractors were never far behind.
Jan 11, 2018 · He was famous for his quarrels with actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo walked off set on one film, never to return, and Melville’s interviews were full of ferocious broadsides against other...
Jean-Pierre Melville (20th October, 1917 – 2 August, 1973) was a dynamic new voice in the post-war French film world whose independence and directorial methods made him the mentor of the aspiring New Wave directors.
