Jean Renoir
DirectingJean 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.
Known For
The Rules of the Game
Octave
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
Langlois
Self
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Filmography — Acting
The Rules of the Game
Octave
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
Langlois
Self
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Those of Our Land
Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
La P’tite Lili
Man with Bowler Hat
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
Backbiters
le sous-préfet
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self
Louis Lumière
Self
The Pursuit of Happiness
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
Charleston Parade
Angel
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir
Filmography — Crew
The Rules of the Game
Director
Grand Illusion
Director
The River
Director
This Land Is Mine
Director
French Cancan
Director
The Southerner
Director
La Bête Humaine
Director
Elena and Her Men
Director
The Woman on the Beach
Director
A Day in the Country
Director
Swamp Water
Director
The Elusive Corporal
Director
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
La Marseillaise
Writer
Picnic on the Grass
Director
The Lower Depths
Director
Toni
Director
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Director
The Golden Coach
Director
La Chienne
Director
Nana
Director
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Screenplay
Life Is Ours
Director
Carola
Writer
Le Bled
Director
The Little Match Girl
Director
Baby's Laxative
Director
Experiment in Evil
Director
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Director
Madame Bovary
Director
Night at the Crossroads
Director
The Ways of Love
Director
Chotard and Co.
Director
Little Red Riding Hood
Writer
The Sad Sack
Director
Backbiters
Director
The Whirlpool of Fate
Director
The Tournament
Director
A Salute to France
Director
A Bum Deal
Director
Charleston Parade
Director
Marquitta
Director