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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi and Human Form like this
Sancar Seckiner
27Jun11
Melville once said, “I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.”
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Edna Sweetlove
3Mar11
Melville was an overrated one-trick pony. If you've seen one or two of his films, you've seen them all. Cute moggy in the piccy though.
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pitdogG
16Sep10
Jean-Pierre Melville is one of my favorites. Even though he doesn't count as "New Wave" he was the director that laid the path for the others to follow. Kind of like what, Iggy Pop, The New York Dolls, or the MC5, did for the Ramones. If it weren't for one, would the other exist? I think not. His films are all stylish and marked by unique relationships between the characters. He of course could not get arrested in today's world but he left a stunning body of work that bears viewing. What are you waiting for? See 'em!
Zachary Curl
7Jul10
Jean-Pierre Melville quickly became one of my favorite directors after seeing only two or three of his films. his unbelievable attention to detail and his "showing rather than telling" approach to exposition still wows me every time i watch one of his films. by far my favorite in western cinema. i wish he would have done more, and more in color; his black and white films are incredible and incredible looking, but when he introduced color (and what beautiful, rich, dark, bright color is was) he made me feel even more immersed in his films than i already was. watching Le Doulos made me feel so immersed in watching, but Le Circle Rouge, Le Samourai and Un Flic made me feel like i was in his films. Michael Mann reminds me a lot of his, especially in Heat.
Le Samourai
7Nov09
one of the main reasons I got so into film growing up.... thank you Mr. Melville.
Carney Creamer
7Dec08
I'm rather distraught that Melville, one of my favorite directors, isn't on the list of auteurs we can put on our profile. I'm sure it's a technical error but I wonder if there's anything we can do to remedy it.
bernard
1Dec08
A lot of his thunder is stolen by the larger figures of the New Wave. Godard, Truffaut, etc. But Melville brought to cinema an amazingly exacting and zen like form to pulp films. Created films that can be interpreted and watched in purely philisophical terms as well as be enjoyed as technical masterpieces. Truly one of the great auteurs.
Matt Hartwell
26Nov08
Granted, I haven't seen what I can't find in region 1, but I'm fairly sure he never made a bad movie. He's easily my favorite director.