Jean Renoir
Also Known As: 장 르누아르, ジャン・ルノワール
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 15, 1894
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 12, 1979
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The Rules of the Game
Overview: A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-09
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The Emma Bovary Trial
Overview: On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-15
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La Bête Humaine
Overview: Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-23
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A Day in the Country
Overview: The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-21
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Overview: A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
Overview: Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Those of Our Land
Overview: With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1915-11-22
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La P’tite Lili
Overview: Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie, with music for the audio version of 1930 by Darius Milhaud. Only one original copy of this tragic story and impressionistic. The film tells the story of Lili ( Frau Catherine Hessling ), a 16 year old orphan who has lost her whole family but has retained her purity and innocence. Alas, a terrible doom awaits this optimistic child: in the slums of Paris she will meet a man who will lead her into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Charleston Parade
Overview: Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-03-19
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The Spanish Earth
Overview: A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-10
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Overview: In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of the Game, and discussing his editing and storytelling techniques.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-08
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Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Overview: A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-14
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Louis Lumière
Overview: Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Backbiters
Overview: About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women and the greed of men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-11-09
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Little Red Riding Hood
Overview: This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she once again comes up against a wolf. This time around the big bad wolf has become a lecherous tramp who keeps stalking the girl trying to wolf her down ... in his own way of course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-05-14
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The Pursuit of Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-26
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Overview: Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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Un tournage à la campagne
Overview: Edited from 4½ hours of unused material left over from the shooting of Jean Renoir's 1936 PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE (A Day in the Country) and donated by the producer Pierre Braunberger to the Cinémathèque Française. Re-edited for a new version, much of the film is shot with synchronised sound with Renoir's voice instructing and guiding the actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-10
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Overview: The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Overview: Jean Renoir talks about the making of La Petite Marchande d'allumettes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-02
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Langlois
Overview: Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-19
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Overview: Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their reunion by discussing, among other things, La Chienne (1931) and Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-22
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L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-24
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-14
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Jean Renoir parle de son art
Overview: Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-11
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The Christian Licorice Store
Overview: A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
Overview: This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-02
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
Overview: The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-30
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Life Is Ours
Overview: A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-07
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D'un Céline l'autre
Overview: Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them Michel Polac tries to better understand the troubled personality of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Notorious anti-Semite and genius writer.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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Le Parti du cinéma
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-02-01
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