Jean Renoir
Director
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Movies
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TV Shows
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.
Behind the Camera
BBC2 Play of the Week
Book
La Gran ilusión
Director, Guionista
La Règle du jeu
Director, Guionista, Productor
La Bête humaine
Director, Guionista
French Cancan
Director, Adaptation, Escritor
Boudu sauvé des eaux
Director, Guionista
The Southerner
Director, Escritor
Le Caporal épinglé
Director, Escritor
The River
Guionista, Director, Productor
Swamp Water
Director
This Land Is Mine
Director, Productor, Guionista
La Marseillaise
Escritor, Director, Productor
Le Carrosse d'or
Director, Guionista
Sur un air de Charleston
Director
Les Bas-fonds
Director, Escritor
La Chienne
Director, Guionista
La Comida en la Hierba
Director, Guionista
Partie de campagne
Director, Escritor
Nana
Director, Productor
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
La vie est à nous
Director, Escritor
Elena et les hommes
Director, Escritor
Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir
Director, Escritor
Renoir, My Father
Book
The Woman on the Beach
Director, Guionista
Carola
Escritor
Une vie sans joie
Director, Productor, Guionista, Editor
Toni
Author, Director, Guionista
Tire au Flanc
Director, Escritor
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Guionista, Director
As Actor/Actress
Cinépanorama
Self
Discorama
Self
La Règle du jeu
Octave
La Bête humaine
Cabuche
Sur un air de Charleston
Angel
Partie de campagne
Père Poulain
La vie est à nous
Le patron du bistrot
Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
Le Procès d'Emma Bovary
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
Une vie sans joie
le sous-préfet
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
Langlois
Self
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
Louis Lumière
Self
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Compère le Loup
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self
Ceux de chez-nous
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
Die Jagd nach dem Glück
La Direction d'acteur par Jean Renoir
Self
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee