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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.
As director
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Elusive Corporal
Experiment in Evil
Picnic on the Grass
Elena and Her Men
French Cancan
The Golden Coach
The River
The Ways of Love
The Woman on the Beach
The Diary of a Chambermaid
A Day in the Country
The Southerner
A Salute to France
This Land Is Mine
Swamp Water
The Rules of the Game
La Bête Humaine
La Marseillaise
Grand Illusion
Life Is Ours
The Lower Depths
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Toni
A Bum Deal
Madame Bovary
Chotard and Co.
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Night at the Crossroads
La Chienne
As actor
The Emma Bovary Trial
Le Parti du cinéma
Quand Jean devint Renoir
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Un tournage à la campagne
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Christian Licorice Store
Langlois
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
D'un Céline l'autre
Louis Lumière
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Jean Renoir parle de son art
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
A Day in the Country
The Rules of the Game
La Bête Humaine
The Spanish Earth
Life Is Ours
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Little Red Riding Hood
The Pursuit of Happiness
La P’tite Lili
Charleston Parade