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.
Filmography (35 titles)
6.8MovieThe Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) · 2021
7.7MovieLe Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage) · 2021
10.0MovieQuand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage) · 2017
5.7MovieFrançois Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage) · 2014
5.0MovieCinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self · 2012
6.5MovieUn tournage à la campagne
Self · 1994
8.5MovieJean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage) · 1993
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Self (archive footage) · 1987
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 1978
6.8MovieThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host · 1974
4.8MovieThe Christian Licorice Store
Self · 1971
5.3MovieLanglois
Self · 1970
5.0MoviePostface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir · 1969
7.0MovieDirecting Actors by Jean Renoir
Self · 1969
7.0MovieD'un Céline l'autre
Self · 1969
7.2MovieLouis Lumière
Self · 1968
MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self · 1967
8.3MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee · 1967
9.0MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self · 1967
MovieJean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee · 1961
8.0ShowDiscorama
Self · 1959
6.0MovieL'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self · 1956
8.7ShowCinépanorama
Self · 1956
7.3MovieA Day in the Country
Père Poulain · 1946
7.5MovieThe Rules of the Game
Octave · 1939
7.1MovieLa Bête Humaine
Cabuche · 1938
6.6MovieThe Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice) · 1937
6.4MovieLife Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot · 1936
7.0MovieMam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited) · 1931
8.0MovieThe Pursuit of Happiness
1930