Directing
Jean Renoir
1894-09-15 · Paris, 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.
Known for
Grand Illusion
The Rules of the Game
La Bête Humaine
A Day in the Country
Boudu Saved from Drowning
La Chienne
The River
French Cancan
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
The Golden Coach
The Lower Depths
Toni
This Land Is Mine
The Southerner
The Little Match Girl
The Woman on the Beach
Movie credits · 70
The Emma Bovary Trial
Le Parti du cinéma
Quand Jean devint Renoir
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Un tournage à la campagne
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Renoir, My Father
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Carola
The Christian Licorice Store
Langlois
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
D'un Céline l'autre
Louis Lumière
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
The Elusive Corporal
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Experiment in Evil
Picnic on the Grass
Elena and Her Men
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
French Cancan
The Golden Coach
The River
The Ways of Love
The Woman on the Beach
A Day in the Country
The Diary of a Chambermaid
The Southerner
A Salute to France
This Land Is Mine
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Swamp Water
Tosca
Cristobal's Gold
TV credits · 4
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