
Jean-Pierre Melville
- Date of Birth: 1917-10-20
- Date of Death: 1973-08-02
- Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography
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... 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cinépanorama
Documentary, Family, Talk • 1956 February

Melville, le dernier samouraï
Documentary • 2020 March

Lino Ventura, la part intime
Documentary • 2018 February

Belmondo, le magnifique
Documentary • 2017 September

Orpheus
Romance, Fantasy • 1950 September

Breathless
Drama, Crime • 1960 March

Les Rois de la comédie
Documentary • 2023 January

Bob le Flambeur
Drama, Action, Crime • 1956 August

Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
Documentary • 1971 July

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Documentary • 2019 May