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Jazz
In 1959-1962 Jean-Pierre Melville listed films he liked for Cahiers du Cinema: 1959I Soliti Ignoti (Mario Monicelli) Some Came Running (Vincente Minelli) Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger) General della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini)Hiroshima, mon Amour (Alain Resnais) Les Liaisons Dangereuses(Roger Vadim) Pickpocket (Robert Bresson) Trial (Mark Robson) The Four Hundred Blows (François Truffaut) The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)1960Le Trou (Jacques Becker) The Apartment (Billy Wilder) Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise) Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard) Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) Moderato Cantabile (Peter Brook) Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut) L’ Amerique Insolite (François Reichenbach) Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Aram Avakian/Bert Stern)1961Tutti a Casa(Luigi Comencini) The Misfits (John Huston) A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard) The Rat Race (Robert Mulligan) North to Alaska(Henry Hathaway) The Young Savages (John Frankenheimer) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz) The Criminal (Joseph Losey) Exodus (Otto Preminger) Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)1962 The Children’s Hour (William Wyler) West Side Story (Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins) One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder) The Hustler (Robert Rossen) Le Signe du Lion (Eric Rohmer) Lolita (Stanley Kubrick) Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan) The Longest Day (Ken Annakin/Andrew Marton/Bernard Wickl) Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger) Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks)As for other films, he liked Rififi, This Gun For Hire, The Asphault Jungle, Moby Dick, White Shadows in the South Seas, Pepe Le Moko, and Orpheus.His films include: 1945 - Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un clown 1947 - Le Silence de la mer 1950 - Les Enfants terribles 1955 - Bob le flambeur 1959 - Deux hommes dans Manhattan 1961 - Léon Morin, prêtre 1963 - Le Doulos 1963 - L’Aîné des Ferchaux 1966 - Le Deuxième souffle 1967 - Le Samouraï 1969 - L’Armée des ombres 1970 - Le Cercle rouge 1972 - Un flic
Cineastes de Notre Temps, Cinpanorama,
Moby Dick, Les Enfants Terribles, Rififi, This Gun For Hire, Bushido and other samourai and Eastern philosophy books, Melville On Melville, Jean-Pierre Melville: An American In Paris, and La Cinema Selon Melville
Herman Melville, John Huston, Jean Cocteau
He is a hero to other people including Quentin Tarantino, Ringo Lam, John Woo, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Volker Schlondorff, Jim Jarmusch, Johnny To, and Kirk Wong.