Jean-Pierre Melville
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| Born: 10/20/1917 Paris, France |
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Biography: Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the '50s with his memorable adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novel, -Les Enfants Terribles, and, over the next 20 years, specialized in intelligent and exciting crime films, most notably Bob le Flambeur, Le Doulos (aka The Finger Man), Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge, and Un Flic. Melville also acted in his own Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan, as well as Cocteau's Orphee, Jean-Luc Godard's À Bout de Souffle (aka Breathless), and Claude Chabrol's Landru (aka Bluebeard). |
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DVDs that Jean-Pierre Melville appeared in...
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- 11/20/2001 - Breathless
- 11/20/2001 - Breathless
DVDs that Jean-Pierre Melville worked on "behind the scenes"...
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- 10/07/2008 - Le Doulos [Criterion Collection] - Director
- 10/07/2008 - Le Deuxieme Souffle [Criterion Collection] - Screenwriter
- 07/22/2008 - Dirty Money - Director
- 07/24/2007 - Les Enfants Terribles [Criterion Collection] - Screenwriter
- 05/15/2007 - L' Army of Shadows [Criterion Collection] - Director
- 10/25/2005 - Le Samourai [Criterion Collection] - Production Designer
- 10/28/2003 - Le Cercle Rouge [Criterion Collection] - Producer
- 04/16/2002 - Bob le Flambeur [Criterion Collection] - Screenwriter
- 07/24/2001 - Un Flic - Director