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...

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...

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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This year marks the centenary of the birth of Jean Renoir, the director of two of this century's most notable films: The Grand Illusion, the poignant story of inmates in a German World War I prisoner-of-war camp, and The Rules of the Game,...

The (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...

Paris 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...

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 ...

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...

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...