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
The Emma Bovary Trial
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Emma Bovary Trial
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Le Parti du cinéma
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Le Parti du cinéma
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
as Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
as Self (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
as Self
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
as Self
Un tournage à la campagne
as Self
Un tournage à la campagne
as Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
as Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
as Self (archive footage)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
as The Narrator/Host
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
as The Narrator/Host
The Christian Licorice Store
as Self
The Christian Licorice Store
as Self
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
as Jean Renoir
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
as Jean Renoir
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
as Self
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
as Self
D'un Céline l'autre
as Self
D'un Céline l'autre
as Self
Louis Lumière
as Self
Louis Lumière
as Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
as Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
as Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - Interviewee
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - Interviewee
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as Self
Jean Renoir parle de son art
as Interviewee
Jean Renoir parle de son art
as Interviewee
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
as Self
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
as Self
A Day in the Country
as Père Poulain
A Day in the Country
as Père Poulain
The Rules of the Game
as Octave
The Rules of the Game
as Octave
La Bête Humaine
as Cabuche
La Bête Humaine
as Cabuche
The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrot
Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrot
Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le Loup
Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le Loup
La P’tite Lili
as Man with Bowler Hat
La P’tite Lili
as Man with Bowler Hat
Charleston Parade
as Angel
Charleston Parade
as Angel
Those of Our Land
as Self
Those of Our Land
as Self