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Melville's approach to film noir and the crime film genre, with its emphasis on "on process and technique, on the importance and ontological insinuations of habit and rules and codes and the consequences of breaking them"<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2018-02-04 |title=All Men Are Guilty: Three Films by Jean-Pierre Melville |url=https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/all-men-are-guilty-three-films-by-jean-pierre-melville |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=MUBI |language=en}}</ref> influenced the work of directors [[Michael Mann]]<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Peter |first=Bastian |date=2022-09-10 |title=Cinema Influences ~ Jean-Pierre Melville |url=https://swissstreetcollective.com/cinema-influences-jean-pierre-melville/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=swissstreetcollective |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[John Woo]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=From the Melville Archives |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4266-from-the-melville-archives |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=The Criterion Collection |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hall |first=Kenneth E. |title=John Woo’s The Killer (The New Hong Kong Cinema) |publisher=[[Hong Kong University|Hong Kong University Press]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-9622099562 |location=Hong Kong |language=en}}</ref> Woo called ''Le Cercle rouge'' one of his favorite films,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woo |first=John |title=Honor, Loyalty, and Friendship: John Woo on Le cercle rouge |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1816-honor-loyalty-and-friendship-john-woo-on-le-cercle-rouge |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=The Criterion Collection |language=en}}</ref> and called Melville "a god".<ref name=":1" />
 
Other directors influenced by Melville include [[Martin Scorsese]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-04 |title=The films that inspired Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-films-that-inspired-martin-scorseses-the-irishman/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Friel |first=Patrick |date=2018-07-31 |title=Jean-Pierre Melville's brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck |url=http://chicagoreader.com/blogs/jean-pierre-melvilles-brooding-cinema-surveyed-on-filmstruck/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Chicago Reader |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Quentin Tarantino]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tarantino on His Influences: If You Love Cinema You Can't Help but Make a Good Movie |url=https://nofilmschool.com/2013/07/tarantino-on-his-influences |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=nofilmschool.com |language=en}}</ref> [[Walter Hill]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Patterson |first=John |date=2014-07-17 |title=Walter Hill: a life in the fast lane |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/17/walter-hill-action-movie-interview |access-date=2023-08-07 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> [[Johnnie To]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Where to begin with Johnnie To |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-with-johnnie-to |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Modern Cinema: Johnnie To |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/event/series/modern-cinema-johnnie-to/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Takeshi Kitano]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=CORLISS |first=RICHARD |date=2001-11-26 |title=Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews |language=en-US |work=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047726,00.html |access-date=2023-08-07 |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>, [[John Frankenheimer]]<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/ronin], [[John Milius]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zilberman |first=Alan |date=2012-11-18 |title='Red Dawn' Wasn't About the Cold War; It Was About Shooting People |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/red-dawn-wasnt-about-the-cold-war-it-was-about-shooting-people/265361/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>, [[Nicolas Winding Refn]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Grozdanovic |first=Nikola |date=2015-08-24 |title=The Essentials: The 10 Greatest Jean-Pierre Melville Films |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-essentials-the-10-greatest-jean-pierre-melville-films-260554/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bundy |first=Andrew |title=Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive: Cinema’s Postmodern Samurai {{!}} Features {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/nicolas-winding-refns-drive-cinemas-postmodern-samurai |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=https://www.rogerebert.com/ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Peter |first=Bastian |date=2021-06-03 |title=Cinema Influences ~ Nicolas Winding Refn |url=https://swissstreetcollective.com/cinema-influences-nicolas-winding-refn/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=swissstreetcollective |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Kim Jee-woon]], [[Hossein Amini]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hossein Amini’s Top 10 |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/222-hossein-aminis-top-10 |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=The Criterion Collection |language=en}}</ref> [[Jim Jarmusch]],<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ooi |first=Jason |date=8 October 2016 |title=Jim Jarmusch Talks Cinephilia, Dilettantes, Love For Sam Fuller, Jean-Pierre Melville & More [NYFF] |url=https://theplaylist.net/nyff-jim-jarmusch-talks-20161008/ |website=The Playlist}}</ref> and [[Aki Kaurismäki]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-04 |title=Melville retrospective |url=https://afthailande.org/en/melville-retrospective/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Alliance Française Bangkok |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Quandt |first=James |title=James Quandt on Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201109/aki-kaurismaeki-s-le-havre-29196 |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=www.artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The [[John Wick|''John Wick'']] film series contains several nods to Melville's ''Le Cercle rouge.''<ref>{{Cite web |[email protected] |first=Michael Calleri {{!}} |date=2023-03-30 |title=ON SCREEN: In John Wick’s world of action, nothing succeeds like excess |url=https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/on-screen-in-john-wick-s-world-of-action-nothing-succeeds-like-excess/article_a42eafbc-ce49-11ed-bc97-a3049cecdb0d.html |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Lockport Union-Sun & Journal |language=en}}</ref>
 
==Filmography==