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Jean Renoir
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 film…
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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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2021
The Emma Bovary Trial
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2021
Le Parti du cinéma
Movie Self (voice) (archive footage)
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2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2012
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1994
Un tournage à la campagne
Movie Self
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1993
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1978
Renoir, My Father
Movie Book
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV show Book
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1974
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Movie The Narrator/Host
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1973
Carola
Movie Writer
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1971
The Christian Licorice Store
Movie Self
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1970
Langlois
Movie Self
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1969
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Movie Jean Renoir
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1969
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Movie Self
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1969
D'un Céline l'autre
Movie Self
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1968
Louis Lumière
Movie Self
- 1967
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1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Movie Self - Interviewee
- 1967
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1962
The Elusive Corporal
Movie Director
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1961
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Movie Interviewee
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1960
Experiment in Evil
Movie Director
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1959
Picnic on the Grass
Movie Director
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1959
Discorama
TV show Self
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1956
Elena and Her Men
Movie Director
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1956
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Movie Self
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1956
Cinépanorama
TV show Self
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1955
French Cancan
Movie Director
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1952
The Golden Coach
Movie Director
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1951
The River
Movie Director
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1950
The Ways of Love
Movie Director
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1947
The Woman on the Beach
Movie Director
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1946
A Day in the Country
Movie Père Poulain
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1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie Director
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1945
The Southerner
Movie Director
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1944
A Salute to France
Movie Director
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1943
This Land Is Mine
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