Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
A Day in the Country
as Père PoulainThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with...
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The Rules of the Game
as OctaveA weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut...
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La Bête Humaine
as CabucheReturning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman,...
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman...
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
as SelfIn the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema...
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The Christian Licorice Store
as SelfA tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in...
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Those of Our Land
as SelfWith family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha...
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The Emma Bovary Trial
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for...
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Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrotA propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the...
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self (archive footage)Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
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Charleston Parade
as AngelShot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a...
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Self (archive footage)The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to...
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The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government...
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Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
as SelfA example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right...
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D'un Céline l'autre
as SelfPassers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife,...
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Langlois
as SelfDocumentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
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Backbiters
as le sous-préfetAbout the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
as Self (archive footage)This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals...
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Louis Lumière
as SelfEric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker...
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of...
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Un tournage à la campagne
as SelfEdited from 4½ hours of unused material left over from the shooting of Jean Renoir's 1936 PARTIE...
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Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le LoupThis is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than...
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Jean Renoir parle de son art
as IntervieweeThree-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave...
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - IntervieweeSecond in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation...
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as SelfThe first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
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Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
as Jean RenoirJean Renoir talks about the making of La Petite Marchande d'allumettes.
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