Jean-Pierre Melville

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q168693: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Army of Shadows (1969); Le Cercle Rouge (1970).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Killer (2023): 1 line

theme (genre ancestry) · them, directly: Jean-Pierre Melville ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The sparse expressionless killer film riffs on Melville, Kurosawa samurai movies and Walter Hill's The Driver.
“This is a Melville movie, this is a Curasawa samurai movie. This is all that stuff, right? This is the Walter Hill, the driver movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:08:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (2) everyone in directing

director, Le Cercle Rouge (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
director, Army of Shadows (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)

Other (1) everyone in other

director (genre reference), The Killer (The Big Picture, ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More)

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Jean-Pierre Melville. A recommendation for Reservoir Dogs fans: Melville's tough-guy French movies.
“if they like Reservoir Dogs is the movies of Jean-Pierre Melville.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (genre ancestry): The Killer → Jean-Pierre Melville. The sparse expressionless killer film riffs on Melville, Kurosawa samurai movies and Walter Hill's The Driver.
“This is a Melville movie, this is a Curasawa samurai movie. This is all that stuff, right? This is the Walter Hill, the driver movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:08:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.