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.His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and. "Bob Le Flambeur" (1956) This is the grand opening of Jean-Pierre Melville's seedy criminal underworld. Silver-haired gentleman and compulsive gambler, Bob Montagné (Roger Duchesne) is down.
JeanPierre Melville Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet • Cinephilia & Beyond
Jean-Pierre Melville, (born Oct. 20, 1917, Paris, France—died Aug. 2, 1973, Paris), 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 Melville. Jean-Pierre Melville. Writer: The Red Circle. 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. It is the American novel, with its Ishmaels and its Claggarts a challenge to the European. Jean-Pierre Melville's breakthrough, Bob le Flambeur (1956), was a witty film about the underworld demimonde of Montmartre, styled after the US gangster films of Cagney and Bogart. This Criterion Channel retrospective brings together all fourteen of his films, along with a profile of the director for the series Cinéastes de notre temps..
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Jean-Pierre Melville's Cinema of Resistance.. He was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, in Paris, to a Jewish family from Alsace. Early on, he adopted his nom de plume,. 1946. A highly-influential French filmmaker, Jean-Pierre Melville's innovative visual style and frugal mode of production highly influenced the movement of the French New Wave, even as its. Jean-Pierre Melville made a total of 13 features during his 25 year career. Though never exactly in or out of critical fashion, Melville's gangster films can be seen as a major influence on many of the crime films from the 1960s onwards, while Le Silence de la mer , Les Enfants terribles , and Bob le flambeur can be regarded as fairly direct. It is Herman Melville. And yet, for over three decades, it was also worn by one of the French cinema's brightest lights, Jean-Pierre Melville, whose art was as revolutionary as that of the eponymous author. Jean-Pierre Grumbach was born on October 20, 1917, to a family of Alsatian Jews.
JeanPierre Melville. Cinéma, Actrice, Cinéma français
The following article originally appeared on Edwin Adrian Nieves' A-BitterSweet-Life. (In 1996, the French journal Cahiers du cinéma dedicated its November issue to director Jean-Pierre Melville. Included in the special edition was a version of this tribute essay by director John Woo, which was dictated to Nicolas Saada in English.) Jean-Pierre Melville. Though remembered now primarily for his intense, spare 1960s gangster films, this French master had a startlingly varied career, encompassing wartime dramas and psychosexual character studies. 9 Results. Directed by. Louis Malle. Aki Kaurismäki. Shop the Collection Current The Criterion Channel. Though remembered now.
THE RANKING FILMS OF Jean-Pierre Melville. 1. Le Samouraï (1967) After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner. 2. Army of Shadows (1969) An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France. 3. The 66th Best Director of All-Time: Jean-Pierre Melville. Melville. Melville is a great place to start for anyone who doesn't think old or foreign (or black and white…or all 3) movies can be entertaining. For the purposes of this list he's a little hurt by the fact that he doesn't have a top 100 film but he has a remarkably deep and.
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Richard Brody writes about Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 heist film, "Le Cercle Rouge," starring Alain Delon, which delights in the meticulous crime-craft that informs the action. Army of Shadows: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret. An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
