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   Jean-Pierre Melville

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   French filmmaker and actor

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       A Bout de Souffle

       1961
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       Le Samouraï

       1967
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       Le cercle rouge

       1970
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       Army in the Shadows

       1970
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       Orpheus

       1950
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       Un flic

       1972

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jean-Pierre_MelvilleJean-Pierre Melville - Wikipedia

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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.

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5. www.indiewire.com › features › generalThe Essentials: The 10 Greatest Jean-Pierre Melville Films

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   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...

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6. www.imdb.com › name › nm0578483Jean-Pierre Melville - IMDb

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   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.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Birth Place: Paris, France

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: Paris, France

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8. www.britannica.com › biography › Jean-Pierre-MelvilleJean-Pierre Melville | Film Noir, Crime Thriller & French New ...

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   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.

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9. cinephiliabeyond.org › jean-pierre-melville-lifeJean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking ...

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   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.

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10. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2017/05/01Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinema of Resistance | The New Yorker

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    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,...

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    Who was Jean-Pierre Melville?

    • Jean-Pierre Melville 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. Grumbach’s enthusiasm for American culture prompted him to change his name to that of his favourite writer, Herman

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    How did Jean-Pierre Melville influence the film industry?

    • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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.

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    How did Jean-Pierre Melville die?

    • Despite some production weaknesses and a lethargically paced plot that revels in cliché, this is one of the director's most beguiling films - a hauntingly lyrical film peppered with some remarkable cinematic flourishes. On 2nd August 1973, Jean-Pierre Melville died in Paris from a heart attack whilst working on his next film. He was aged 55.

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    Did Melville have a psyche?

    • This notion of loyalty and honour appears to be very much part of the Melville psyche and almost certainly derived from his involvement with the French Resistance during the Second World War. The man in question was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, in Paris on 20th October 1917, into a Jewish family living in Alsace, France.

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12. www.frenchfilms.org › biography › jean-pierre-melvilleJean-Pierre Melville - biography and films - French Films

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    Biography: life and films. The Master of French Film Noir. J ean-Pierre Melville has been rightly hailed as the father of the French gangster film. Certainly, his moody thriller offerings are the films for which he is best known, on a par if not better than anything which Hollywood has given us.