Remembering Jean-Pierre Melville on his birthday 🎂
📷 A. Abbas
"In Melville country, all slopes are slippery, some of them fatally so."
- Anthony Lane
Jean-Pierre Melville by Sam Lévin
"Transposition is more or less a reflex with me: I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing."
Jean-Pierre Melville gives us a wave from his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere
📷 Gaston Paris, 1956
Jean Cocteau with Jean-Pierre Melville
📷 Georges Dambier
Coffee with Jean-Pierre Melville ☕️
📷 Jean Pierre Loth
"Melville’s great gift was to emphasize both the radical isolation of individuals and the sticky webs of social obligation in which they nonetheless exist."
- @aoscott
Jean-Pierre Melville by A. Abbas, 1972
"A movie director should be constantly open, constantly traumatizable."
Today we're celebrating Melville's birthday 🎂
#PhoneCallFromPaul @Holdengraber
Jean-Pierre Melville & a friend by Gaston Paris, 1950
On June 1967, Melville’s studio & apartment burned down. He had been woken up by one of his three cats, and smelled smoke.
Jean-Pierre Melville lost his entire archive in the fire. "Too busy to give himself over to suffering," according to his wife, he went back to work on Le Samouraï.
Good job, little guy!
📷 A. Abbas, 1972
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