Jean-Pierre Melville on blu-ray

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Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973)

"I think your first film should be made with your own blood."

"It so happens that the gangster story is a very suitable vehicle for the particular
form of modern tragedy called film noir, which was born from American detective
novels. It's a flexible genre. You can put whatever you want into it, good or bad.
And it's a fairly easy vehicle to use to tell stories that matter to you about
individual freedom, friendship, or rather human relationships, because they're not
always friendly. Or betrayal, one of the driving forces in American crime novels."



Le Ouevre:

1972 Un flic (A Cop)
1970 Le cercle rouge (The Red Circle)
1969 L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
1967 Le samouraï (The Samourai / The Godson)
1966 Le deuxième souffle (Second Wind)
1963 L'aîné des Ferchaux (Magnet of Doom)
1962 Le doulos (The Informer)
1961 Léon Morin, prêtre (Léon Morin, Priest)
1959 Deux hommes dans Manhattan (Two Men in Manhattan)
1956 Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler)
1953 Quand tu liras cette lettre... (When You Read This Letter ...)
1950 Les enfants terribles (The Terrible Children)
1949 Le silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea)
1946 24 heures de la vie d'un clown (24 Hours in the Life of a Clown) - an 18-minute short.

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About the maestro:
Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris by Ginette Vincendeau
Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre-Melville by Andrew Dickos