<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">The 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&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Le Silence de la mer</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">L'Armée des ombres</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> while alternately presenting the stark glamor of his postwar film noir heroes in films like&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Bob le flambeur</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> and&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Le Samouraï</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">A filmmaker who redefined the rules of postwar independent filmmaking and influenced a generation of New Wave acolytes, Melville was also able to captivate the popular audience with stories of beleaguered existential outsiders-gangsters, thieves, and rogue cops-as they wend their way toward a greater definition of our modern human condition.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;</span></p><p><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Honor Among Thieves</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;profiles this filmmaker's eventful life and discusses his cinema as an essential body of work in our reckoning of postwar European cinema, and of Melville's own influence on the filmmakers who admire him.</span></p><p><br></p>