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Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach; 20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973) was a French filmmaker. [1]

50 relations: Alain Delon, Amour de poche, Anarchism, Army of Shadows, Bob le flambeur, Breathless (1960 film), British Film Institute, Code Name Melville, Film director, Film noir, French New Wave, French Resistance, Ginette Vincendeau, Herman Melville, History of the Jews in Alsace, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, John Woo, Johnnie To, Jump cut, Landru (film), Léon Morin, Priest, Le Cercle Rouge, Le deuxième souffle (1966 film), Le Doulos, Le Samouraï, Le Silence de la mer (1949 film), Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les Enfants Terribles (film), Lino Ventura, Magnet of Doom, Michael Mann, Mimi Pinson (1958 film), Nazism, Operation Dragoon, Orpheus (film), Paris, Philippe Labro, Pseudonym, Quentin Tarantino, Ringo Lam, The New Yorker, Tim Palmer, Two Men in Manhattan, Un flic, When You Read This Letter, William Friedkin, Yves Montand, 13th arrondissement of Paris, 13th Berlin International Film Festival.

Alain Delon

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and businessman.

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Amour de poche

Amour de poche (Girl in His Pocket) is a French comedy fantasy film from 1957, directed by Pierre Kast, written by France Roche, starring Jean Marais.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Army of Shadows

Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Bob le flambeur

Bob le flambeur ("Bob the Gambler" or "Bob the High Roller") is a 1956 French gangster film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Breathless (1960 film)

Breathless (French: À bout de souffle; "out of breath") is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in his feature directorial debut about a wandering criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg).

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Code Name Melville

Code Name Melville (original French title: Sous le nom de Melville) is a feature length documentary about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier Bohler and produced by Raphaël Millet for Nocturnes Productions in 2008.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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French New Wave

New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) is often referred to as one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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Ginette Vincendeau

Ginette Vincendeau (born 1948) is a French-born British-based academic who is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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History of the Jews in Alsace

The history of the Jews in Alsace is one of the oldest in Europe.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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John Woo

John Woo SBS (Wu Yu-seng; Ng Yu-sum (Cantonese); born May 1, 1946) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer.

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Johnnie To

Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer.

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Jump cut

A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all.

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Landru (film)

Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol.

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Léon Morin, Priest

Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre) is a 1961 film directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva.

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Le Cercle Rouge

Le Cercle Rouge ("The Red Circle") is a 1970 Franco-Italian crime film set mostly in Paris.

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Le deuxième souffle (1966 film)

Le deuxième souffle is a French crime-thriller film released in 1966.

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Le Doulos

Le Doulos is a 1963 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Lesou.

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Le Samouraï

Le Samouraï (originally released as The Godson in the US) is a 1967 neo-noir crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Le Silence de la mer (1949 film)

Le Silence de la mer (English: The Silence of the Sea) is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (French for "The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne") is a 1945 French film directed by Robert Bresson.

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Les Enfants Terribles (film)

Les Enfants Terribles ("The terrible children") is a 1950 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and based on Jean Cocteau's novel of the same name.

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Lino Ventura

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987) was an Italian actor who starred mainly in French films.

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Magnet of Doom

Magnet of Doom (L'Aîné des Ferchaux) is a 1963 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, based on the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon.

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Michael Mann

Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive brand of stylized crime drama.

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Mimi Pinson (1958 film)

Mimi Pinson is a 1958 French comedy-drama film directed by Robert Darène and starring Dany Robin, Raymond Pellegrin and Micheline Dax.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Operation Dragoon

Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15August 1944.

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Orpheus (film)

Orpheus (Orphée; also the title used in the UK) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro is a French author, journalist and film director, born in Montauban (close to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) on 27 August 1936.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American director, writer, and actor.

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Ringo Lam

Ringo Lam Ling-Tung (Cantonese: Lam Ling-tung), is a Hong Kong film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Tim Palmer

Tim Palmer is a Grammy nominated British music producer, audio engineer, guitarist and songwriter of rock and alternative music.

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Two Men in Manhattan

Two Men in Manhattan (Deux hommes dans Manhattan) is a 1959 French film-noir directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Un flic

Un flic (A Cop, also known as Dirty Money) is a 1972 French film, the last directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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When You Read This Letter

When You Read This Letter (French: Quand tu liras cette lettre) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco and Yvonne Sanson.

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William Friedkin

William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935)Biskind, p. 200.

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Yves Montand

Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer.

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13th arrondissement of Paris

The 13th arrondissement of Paris (XIIIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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13th Berlin International Film Festival

The 13th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1963.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville

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