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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.
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, dit Jean-Pierre Melville, né le 20 octobre 1917 dans le 9 e arrondissement de Paris et mort le 2 août 1973 dans le 13 e arrondissement de Paris, est un réalisateur et scénariste français.
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 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 ...
