Jean-Pierre Melville

[Vercetti]

Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973)



Le Samouraï The Samurai
Le Cercle Rouge The Red Circle
Bob le flambeur Bob the Gambler
Le Doulos The Finger Man
Un Flic A Cop

[Capo]

1. Army of Shadows 1969
2. Le Samouraï 1967
3. The Red Circle 1970
4. Two Men in Manhattan 1958

[jrod]

Le Samourai

Not one of my favorites, as it is to the majority of the people here, but it is still really damn good

[Omar]

1. Le Samourai The Samurai (1967)
2. Bob le flambeur Bob the Gambler (1955)

Both are character studies hidden within crime films, but both are so different from each other, it's hard to believe they were made by the same filmmaker.

[Vercetti]

Both are character studies hidden within crime films

In all honesty, that's probably the type of film I'd love to make if I ever became a director, which is probably why I love Scorsese, Mann, and Melville's films so much.

[Mike Sullivan]

Le Samourai (1967)

His film is one of the mpst perfectly crafted films ever. The director has such assurance. He has the film by the reigns and controls the audience and he trusts the material and the actors to exceute the whole deal perfectly. Not many other films can boast this.

[Vercetti]

Updated with Le Doulos. Hard to decide which is better, Le Doulos or Un Flic.

Oddly, his films are interesting me more then Godard's, though I still need to venture more into him. Did anyone else love Melville's small role in Breathless?

[Omar]

vercetti said:

Did anyone else love Melville's small role in Breathless?

I loved it. I also loved the references to "Bob le Flambeur".

[Omar]

1. Le Samourai The Samurai (1967)
2. Bob le flambeur Bob the Gambler (1955)
3. Un flic A Cop (1972)

[Omar]

1. L'armée des ombres (1969)
2. Le cercle rouge (1970)
3. Le samourai (1967)
4. Bob le flambeur (1955)
5. Un flic (1972)
6. Les enfants terribles (1950)

[svsg]

Le Samourai
The Red Circle

[Michael]

1. Le Samouraï (1967) *****

[svsg]

DVC, you HAVE to watch The Red Circle. You will like it a lot

[Michael]

I'm more interested in Army of Shadows.

[quentincompson]

1.Army of Shadows 10/10
2.Le Samourai 9/10
3.Bob the Gambler 7/10
4.Les enfants terribles 6/10
5.The Red Circle 5/10

[Anasazie]

1. Army of Shadows (1969) 9.5/10
2. Le Samouraï (1967) 9/10
3. Bob the Gambler (1956) 8/10
4. Un flic (1972) 7/10
5. Les Enfants terribles (1950) 6/10
6. Le Doulos (1962) 6/10
7. The Red Circle (1970) 5/10

[svsg]

Nov 24, 2007 19:28:05 GMT @svsg said:

Le Samourai
The Red Circle

Army of Shadows
Bob le flambeur

[svsg]

Red Circle - I watched it again for the nth time and loved it as always. Though I would like to better understand my attraction to this film, I am content with my connection/response to this film, just based on the stimulus the film provides. Also a turning point in my film appreciation preferences, though not something previously unvisited.

[Capo]

Also a turning point in my film appreciation preferences, though not something previously unvisited.

What do you mean by this? It sounds very interesting, but I want to know what you mean.

[svsg]

I was consciously moving towards films that stimulated me at an intellectual level and (in spite of obvious liking) relegating some other excellent films to a subordinate position because I was connecting to them at a non-intellectual level. For instance when I went about rating some films I liked, I would probably reduce a star because I was asking questions like (but not limited to) "what does this film say new about life" and would not get a satisfactory answer. There is an obvious flaw in such an approach, because I was somehow assigning a wrong goal to all films to achieve. Why should films be restricted to intellectual domain? That would be a very restrictive and narrow view of what this medium has to offer. I now want to embrace all films I like, without harping over arbitrary metrics to judge them. That way, I'll have a much fuller, richer and satisfactory experience of films and appreciate how wonderfully this medium can affect me personally.