Jean Renoir
Directing
Born September 15, 1894 in 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).
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)
Renoir, My Father
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
Carola
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
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Louis Lumière
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
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The Elusive Corporal
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
Experiment in Evil
Picnic on the Grass
Discorama
Self
Elena and Her Men
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
French Cancan
The Golden Coach
The River
The Ways of Love
The Woman on the Beach
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
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
The Rules of the Game
Octave
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
La Marseillaise
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
Grand Illusion
The Lower Depths
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Toni
Madame Bovary
Chotard and Co.
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Night at the Crossroads
La Chienne
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
Baby's Laxative
The Pursuit of Happiness
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
Le Bled
The Tournament
The Sad Sack
The Little Match Girl
Backbiters
le sous-préfet
La P’tite Lili
Man with Bowler Hat
Marquitta
Charleston Parade
Angel
Nana
Whirlpool of Fate
Those of Our Land
Self