Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 15, 1894
Died
Feb 12, 1979
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
74 titles
Jean Renoir
Biography
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
Filmography
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Self (archive footage)
Renoir, My Father
Book
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
BBC2 Play of the Week
Book
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
Carola
Writer
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
Langlois
Self
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
Louis Lumière
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self
The Elusive Corporal
Director
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
Experiment in Evil
Producer
Picnic on the Grass
Director
Discorama
Self
Elena and Her Men
Director
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
French Cancan
Adaptation
The Golden Coach
Director
The River
Director
The Ways of Love
Director
The Woman on the Beach
Director
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
The Southerner
Director
A Salute to France
Director
This Land Is Mine
Director
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Co-Director
Swamp Water
Director
Tosca
Co-Director
Cristobal's Gold
Dialogue
The Rules of the Game
Octave
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
La Marseillaise
Writer
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
Grand Illusion
Director
The Lower Depths
Director