Jean Renoir

Known for DirectingBorn 1894-09-15Died 1979-02-12Paris, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Quand Jean devint Renoir

A Salute to France

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

Cristobal's Gold

Cinépanorama

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

Le Parti du cinéma

Discorama

The Pursuit of Happiness

Grand Illusion

The Emma Bovary Trial

The Rules of the Game

Louis Lumière

The River

BBC2 Play of the Week

French Cancan

A Day in the Country

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir

D'un Céline l'autre

La Chienne

This Land Is Mine

The Golden Coach

The Lower Depths

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

La Bête Humaine

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Un tournage à la campagne

Toni

Experiment in Evil

Mam'zelle Nitouche

Little Red Riding Hood

Marquitta

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Carola

The Little Match Girl

La Marseillaise

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Backbiters

The Southerner

The Elusive Corporal

The Spanish Earth

The Sad Sack

Nana

Picnic on the Grass

Those of Our Land

Whirlpool of Fate