Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre MelvilleThe crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonance, and no filmmaker has immersed himself in this project more than Jean Pierre Melville (1917 1973). Nurtured on American movies, and living through the turbulent years of the mid 20th century, Melville memorialized his wartime experiences in the Resistance with works like Le Silence de la mer and L'Arme