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Jean-Pierre Melville

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When he returned from the war, he applied for a license to become an assistant director but was refused. Without this support, he decided to direct his films by his own means, and continued to use Melville as his stage name. He became an independent filmmaker and owned his own studio, rue Jenner, in
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This is how you should attend the forthcoming retrospective of Jean-Pierre Melville movies at Film Forum: Tell nobody what you are doing. Even your loved ones—especially your loved ones—must be kept in the dark. If it comes to a choice between smoking and talking, smoke. Dress well but without
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ostentation. Wear a raincoat, buttoned and belted, regardless of whether there is rain. Any revolver should be kept, until you need it, in the pocket of the coat. Finally, before you leave home, put your hat on. If you don't have a hat, you can't go.
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In 1942, both Jean-Pierre and Jacques crossed the Pyrenees and headed for neutral Spain where they would then try to reach Britain and the Free French Army. They crossed separately several weeks apart. Jacques was carrying money intended for
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in the lead. Melville apparently wrote the first 200 shots for the film. After Melville's death, Labro took over the project, hoping to finish writing and direct it, but he eventually dropped it to film
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Melville's independence and "reporting" style of film-making (he was one of the first French directors to use real locations regularly) were a major influence on the
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at the Hôtel PLM Saint-Jacques restaurant in Paris; the cause of death has been variously given as a heart attack or a ruptured aneurysm. He was 55 years old.
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For several years, he sat on the executive board of the French film classication board, the Commission de classification des œuvres cinématographiques, of the
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Melville's approach to the crime film genre emphasized "habit and rules and codes and the consequences of breaking them". He influenced the work of directors
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Grumbach left school at 17 working as a courier and then a wedding photographer. In 1937, he joined the Communist Party, but left in 1939 over the
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have become part of its fame. In an interview, Melville claimed editing was his favorite part of the filmmaking process along with writing.
1604:"The Unbeaten As a movie star and world-class director, Takeshi Kitano is the champ-playing brutal men who live and die on their own terms" 1416: 2639: 976: 2254: 2634: 328:. On 29 June 1967, the studio and Melville's apartment burnt down. His personal archive of photographs and scripts was destroyed. 407: 2684: 1468: 2358: 1975: 1712: 2689: 1107: 1335: 2679: 2669: 2649: 2094: 2034: 1399: 2187: 1441: 1161: 752: 2061: 647: 2664: 2123: 1519: 1134: 1790:"Jim Jarmusch Talks Cinephilia, Dilettantes, Love For Sam Fuller, Jean-Pierre Melville & More [NYFF]" 255: 94: 2674: 1925: 2583: 1189: 1058: 2247: 2087: 844: 247: 1738: 1310: 2131: 2000: 1990: 1980: 1763: 325: 1361: 1028: 2659: 1837: 632: 264: 181: 1892: 2484: 1003: 2139: 1603: 662: 2240: 977:"Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet • Cinephilia & Beyond" 425:
Melville was married to his wife, Florence, from 1952 until his death. She worked as a producer on
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Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the
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parents Berthe and Jules Grumbach. His father was a rag merchant; the family lived in the ninth
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of Paris. His eldest brother Jacques wrote for the Socialist Party weekly
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Producer, adaptation, dialogue, cinematographer, actor ("Moreau")
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The Dandy at Dusk: Taste and Melancholy in the Twentieth Century
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wrote the following about a 2017 retrospective of his films:
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Melville ultimately became so identified with the style that
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used him as a minor character in his seminal New Wave film
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Produced in 2008, the 76-minute-long feature documentary
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one of his favorite films, and called Melville "a god".
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Melville died on 2 August 1973 while dining with writer
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Bertrand Tessier "Jean-Pierre Melville, le solitaire",
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as "nostalgic", while many commentators have noted its
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At the time, Melville was then writing his next film,
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Homage: a Tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973)
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Index


Breathless
Paris
Cimetière parisien de Pantin
[mɛlvil]
French New Wave
Bob le flambeur
Le Doulos
Le Samouraï
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Silence de la mer
Army of Shadows
French Resistance
World War II
Herman Melville
existentialist
film noir
neo-noir
crime dramas
Roger Ebert
Paris
Alsatian Jewish
arrondissement
Le Populaire
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
World War II
evacuated from Dunkirk
French Army
French Resistance
Nazis

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