Jean Renoir
Directing
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.
Filmography
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021 · Movie
Le Parti du cinéma
2021 · Movie
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017 · Movie
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014 · Movie
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012 · Movie
Un tournage à la campagne
1994 · Movie
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993 · Movie
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
1987 · Movie
Renoir, My Father
1978 · Movie
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Series
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Series
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · Movie
Carola
1973 · Movie
The Christian Licorice Store
1971 · Movie
Langlois
1970 · Movie
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969 · Movie
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969 · Movie
D'un Céline l'autre
1969 · Movie
Louis Lumière
1968 · Movie
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967 · Movie
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967 · Movie
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967 · Movie
The Elusive Corporal
1962 · Movie
Jean Renoir parle de son art
1961 · Movie
Experiment in Evil
1960 · Movie
Picnic on the Grass
1959 · Movie
Discorama
1959 · Series
Elena and Her Men
1956 · Movie
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956 · Movie
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
French Cancan
1955 · Movie
The Golden Coach
1952 · Movie
The River
1951 · Movie
The Ways of Love
1950 · Movie
The Woman on the Beach
1947 · Movie
A Day in the Country
1946 · Movie
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Movie
The Southerner
1945 · Movie
A Salute to France
1944 · Movie
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Movie
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie
Swamp Water
1941 · Movie
Tosca
1941 · Movie
Cristobal's Gold
1940 · Movie
The Rules of the Game
1939 · Movie
La Bête Humaine
1938 · Movie
La Marseillaise
1938 · Movie
The Spanish Earth
1937 · Movie
Grand Illusion
1937 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1936 · Movie
Life Is Ours
1936 · Movie
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Movie
Toni
1935 · Movie
A Bum Deal
1935 · Movie
Madame Bovary
1934 · Movie
Chotard and Co.
1933 · Movie
Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932 · Movie
Night at the Crossroads
1932 · Movie
La Chienne
1931 · Movie
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931 · Movie
Baby's Laxative
1931 · Movie
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930 · Movie
Little Red Riding Hood
1930 · Movie
Le Bled
1929 · Movie
The Tournament
1928 · Movie
The Sad Sack
1928 · Movie
The Little Match Girl
1928 · Movie
Backbiters
1927 · Movie
La P’tite Lili
1927 · Movie
Marquitta
1927 · Movie
Charleston Parade
1927 · Movie
Nana
1926 · Movie
Whirlpool of Fate
1925 · Movie
Those of Our Land
1915 · Movie