Code Name: Melville
6.7
7 votes
March 27, 2010
1h 16m
Overview
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Directed by
Where to watch
In United States
Not available to stream, rent, or buy in United States right now.
Cast
Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt
SelfLeo Fortel
Self
Pierre Grasset
SelfLaurent Grousset
Self
Rémy Grumbach
Self
Masahiro Kobayashi
Self
André S. Labarthe
Self
Philippe Labro
SelfJean-Jacques Nataf
SelfRui Nogueira
Self
Volker Schlöndorff
Self
Bertrand Tavernier
Self
Johnnie To
Self
François Chalais
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Chancel
Self (archive footage) (voice)More like this
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
Woman
2020
S4: The Bob Lazar Story
2026
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
2023
The Class of ‘92
2013
McQueen
2018
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
Maria by Callas
2017
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017
Directed by John Ford
1971
Sidney
2022
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity
2021
Birth of the Living Dead
2013
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2019