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Jean Renoir | | Birth Date: |
September 15, 1894 | | Death Date: |
February 12, 1979 | | Place of Birth: |
France | | Place of Death: |
Beverly Hills, California, United States | | Nationality: |
French, American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
director, producer, screenwriter, actor, biographer, novelist |
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 Biography of Jean Renoir
1,862 words, approx. 6 pages
 French-born Jean Renoir (1894-1979) directed two of the twentieth century's most critically acclaimed films, La Grande Illusion and La Regle du jeu (Rules of the Game), and is credited with inspiring the subsequent film noir and French New Wave... 
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 Renoir, Jean (1894-1979) Summary
203 words, approx. 1 pages A French filmmaker who created some 37 films in the realist tradition during a 40-year career, Jean Renoir is regarded as a mentor to the French New Wave directors of the late 1950s and a mainstay of art films beloved by American cinephiles. The son of... summary from source:
 Jean Renoir Information
3,047 words, approx. 10 pages
Jean Renoir (French IPA: [ʁəˈnwaʁ]) (September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter...
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 American Cinematographer Jean Renoir
12/01/2007: 675 words, approx. 2 pages Jean Renoir Collector's Edition (1925-1962) 1.33:1,1.66:1 (16x9 Enhanced) Dolby Digital Monaural Lionsgate, $29.98 The potential for DVD technology to facilitate a home cinematheque has rarely been as economically realized as it is on Jean Renoir Collector's Edition, an indispensable... summary from source:
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 AP News The film geek shall inherit the earth
4/9/2007: 962 words, approx. 3 pagesThe (film) geek shall inherit the earth. And that may include you, for geeks in the cineplex and behind the cameras are an increasing horde."Society in general has sort of been more permissive about being geekish anyway," says Harry Knowles, the self-styled Head Geek of... summary from source:
The New York Observer Paris Mismatch: 18 Little Films, Many Stars, One Delightful City
5/8/2007: 828 words, approx. 3 pagesParis Je T’Aime Running time 120 minutes Directed by Olivier Assayas, Alfonso Cuarón, Joel and Ethan Coen et al. Written by Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Gena Rowlands et al. Starring Juliette Binoche, Elijah Wood, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal Paris Je T’Aime was originally conceived...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter Harcourt
3,130 words, approx. 10 pages
Along with those of Vigo, the films of Jean Renoir are the most tentative in the history of the cinema. They work by indirection, implying qualities and attitudes that are rarely stated directly. Occasionally, something like a choric comment by one of his characters gives us a clue to Renoir's own atittude, a clue that we might be tempted to relate to something similar said by another character in a different film. For Renoir's films add up to one immensely rich and varied single work. Renoir ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Alexander Sesonske
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La Petite Marchande d'allumettes represents the first full flowering of a tendency that runs through Renoir's films from 1924 to 1970, a tendency to create an atmosphere of strangeness and unreality, to evoke the quality the French call féerique. Only this one among Renoir's films has that quality throughout; more often, it emerges within a prevailing naturalism to lend a sense of enchantment to a scene. (p. 43) La Petite Marchande d'allumettes remains at least a lovely fa... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Leo Braudy
1,888 words, approx. 6 pages
Renoir makes his world energetic and compelling through the complexity and irony with which he treats even his most cherished themes. His films do not come to a stop in the sense of the self-enclosed great work; they have a richness that eludes total schematization, a constant edge of self-awareness that never yields to either formal pomposities or fashionable fragmentation. Renoir has said that every director struggles between interior reality, the reality of the constructed world of the studio, and exteri...
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