{"id":1360,"date":"2018-08-17T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T09:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2019-11-13T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:26:47","slug":"in-the-mood-for-melville-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/archive\/in-the-mood-for-melville-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Mood for Melville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Melville_FBPost-01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Melville\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Melville_FBPost-01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Melville_FBPost-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Melville_FBPost-01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Melville_FBPost-01.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Mood for Melville<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A retrospective of the films of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean-Pierre Melville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(with Thai &amp; English subtitles)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>t\u2019s a loaded question why there isn\u2019t a single Thai movie or TV soap inspired by the Free Thai experience, with Free Thai military and civilian characters in their great and noble adventure. Well, except for \u2018Koo Gum\u2019 [\u2018The Karmic Pair\u2019] in which the Free Thai villains radio for the bomb that kills the hero, a Japanese occupying soldier (with weeping pregnant Thai wife).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he great charm of French cinema surely stems partly from the fact that their first indie filmmaker\u2014who was rejected by the system but set up his own studio\u2014was a former French Resistance fighter, who wedded his love for golden age Hollywood noir with his own wartime experience to manifest a new cool noir for the world to copy in turn. As Thai dudes of a certain age know, having dreamt of being \u201chandsome as Alain Delon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOB THE GAMBLER <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1956, Rialto Pictures, 104 min, France<\/p>\n<p>Melville\u2019s\u00a0classic film is less a true noir than (in the director\u2019s words) \u201ca comedy of manners\u201d &#8211; a romantic meditation on Montmartre, faithless women, old pros and casinos waiting to be knocked over. Suffused with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, BOB was \u201ca letter to a Paris which no longer existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ADdXj2Ucjzo?start=46&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE FINGER MaN <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1962, Rialto Pictures, 110 min, France\/Italy<\/p>\n<p>Director Jean-Pierre Melville met actor Jean-Paul Belmondo during Melville&#8217;s brief cameo in Godard\u2019s BREATHLESS &#8211; here, he gives Belmondo one of his best roles, that of a two-faced informer caught between the police and his \u201cold pal,\u201d played by doom-faced Serge Reggiani.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5NnxYnOWLWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>L\u00c9ON MORIN, PRIEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1961, Rialto Pictures, 130 min, France\/Italy<\/p>\n<p>In a French Alps village during WWII, widowed mother Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) walks into a confessional, but not as a believer; a communist and atheist, she is more concerned about the welfare of her daughter during the occupation. The priest she speaks to, L\u00e9on Morin (Jean-Paul Belmondo, wonderfully cast against type), proves exceptionally insightful, and as they begin to have philosophical conversations outside of church, she feels a growing attraction to the young man. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Henri Deca\u00eb, this is among the most thoughtful examinations of faith and its challenges ever made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JaMF9GI_t5E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The red circle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1970, Rialto Pictures, 150 min, France\/Italy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle.\u201d The three men brought together in this taut crime thriller are recent parolee Alain Delon, escaped prisoner Gian Maria Volont\u00e8 and ex-cop Yves Montand, who together target a Paris jewelry shop (in a bravura heist sequence to rival RIFIFI\u2019s) while on the run from both the police and a local gangster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JQRV4becJE?start=8&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARMY OF SHADOWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1969, Rialto Pictures, 150 min, France\/Italy<\/p>\n<p>Arguably director Jean-Pierre Melville&#8217;s most personal film (he fought in the French underground during World War II), this shattering portrait of the early days of the French Resistance is not so much a crime film as it is a fascinating companion to the director\u2019s more famous thrillers. The dark, fatalistic tone and the themes are all there from Melville\u2019s noirs: betrayal, the loss of honor and the mechanics of brutality. Legendary tough guy Lino Ventura stars in what Melville called \u201ca nostalgic pilgrimage back to a certain period which profoundly marked my generation.\u201d With Simone Signoret and Paul Meurisse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/on38oTESbHU?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The silence of the sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1949, Janus Films, 88 min, France<\/p>\n<p>Based on the popular Vercors novel about occupied France, director Jean-Pierre Melville\u2019s feature debut is largely set in a French home commandeered by the Nazis for one of their officers (Howard Vernon). The uncle (Jean-Marie Robain) and niece (Nicole St\u00e9phane) who live there cooperate grudgingly, refusing to speak to their German guest, though over time his friendly overtures have their effect. Made outside the French studio system on a shoestring budget, with extensive use of location shooting and natural light, this involving drama helped plant seeds that would later blossom as the French New Wave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xVsunKIunss?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the Mood for Melville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2017, 58 min, France &#8211; Director: Benjamin Clavel<\/p>\n<p>Making just fourteen films during his twenty-five-year career, Jean-Pierre Melville has become an international legend. Marked by a cool abstraction, moody night scenes exploring the introspective mythology of the gangster underworld, cold violence and virile friendships, the films of this master of crime tragedy have attained cult status<\/p>\n<p>[In English with English \/Thai subtitles.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Institut fran\u00e7ais, Special thanks to The French Embassy (Thailand), La F\u00eate, Alliance Fran\u00e7aise Bangkok, Jean-Pierre Melville Centennial and Jean-Pierre Melville Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the Mood for Melville A retrospective of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville \u00a0 (with Thai &amp; English subtitles) &nbsp; It\u2019s a loaded question why there isn\u2019t a single Thai movie or TV soap inspired by the Free Thai experience, with Free Thai military and civilian characters in their great and noble adventure. Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}