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.
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Movies (70)
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Le Parti du cinéma
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017 · Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012 · Self
Un tournage à la campagne
1994 · Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993 · Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Renoir, My Father
1978 · Book
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · The Narrator/Host, Director, Writer
Carola
1973 · Writer
The Christian Licorice Store
1971 · Self
Langlois
1970 · Self
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969 · Jean Renoir
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969 · Self
D'un Céline l'autre
1969 · Self
Louis Lumière
1968 · Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967 · Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967 · Self - Interviewee
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967 · Self
The Elusive Corporal
1962 · Director, Writer
Jean Renoir parle de son art
1961 · Interviewee
Experiment in Evil
1960 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Picnic on the Grass
1959 · Director, Screenplay
Elena and Her Men
1956 · Director, Writer
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956 · Self
French Cancan
1955 · Director, Adaptation, Writer
The Golden Coach
1952 · Director, Screenplay
The River
1951 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Ways of Love
1950 · Director
The Woman on the Beach
1947 · Director, Screenplay
A Day in the Country
1946 · Père Poulain, Director, Writer
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Director
The Southerner
1945 · Director, Writer
A Salute to France
1944 · Director, Screenplay
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Co-Director
Swamp Water
1941 · Director
Tosca
1941 · Co-Director
Cristobal's Gold
1940 · Dialogue
The Rules of the Game
1939 · Octave, Director, Screenplay, Producer
La Bête Humaine
1938 · Cabuche, Director, Screenplay
La Marseillaise
1938 · Writer, Director, Producer
The Spanish Earth
1937 · Narrator (voice)
Grand Illusion
1937 · Director, Writer
The Lower Depths
1936 · Director, Writer
Life Is Ours
1936 · Le patron du bistrot, Director, Writer
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Screenplay, Director
Toni
1935 · Director, Author, Screenplay
A Bum Deal
1935 · Director
Madame Bovary
1934 · Director, Screenplay
Chotard and Co.
1933 · Director, Writer
Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932 · Director, Screenplay
Night at the Crossroads
1932 · Director, Screenplay
La Chienne
1931 · Director, Screenplay
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931 · Master sergeant (uncredited)
Baby's Laxative
1931 · Director, Writer
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
Little Red Riding Hood
1930 · Compère le Loup, Writer, Producer
Le Bled
1929 · Director
The Tournament
1928 · Director, Adaptation
The Sad Sack
1928 · Director, Writer
The Little Match Girl
1928 · Director, Producer, Writer
Backbiters
1927 · le sous-préfet, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
La P’tite Lili
1927 · Man with Bowler Hat
Marquitta
1927 · Director, Adaptation
Charleston Parade
1927 · Angel, Director
Nana
1926 · Director, Producer
Whirlpool of Fate
1925 · Director, Producer, Set Decoration
Those of Our Land
1915 · Self
