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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: The Samurai. 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...
Mar 26, 2024 · 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.
Apr 24, 2017 · A Critic at Large. 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,...
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.
Oct 4, 2002 · Jean-Pierre Melville’s highly influential and playful 1955 gangster film, Bob le flambeur, contains a scene in which the central protagonist, Bob Montagne, a nocturnal, worldly gambler and intermittent criminal, returns home to his apartment some time just after dawn.
