Jean Renoir
Directing • Born 1894-09-15 – Died 1979-02-12
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.
Filmography
35 credits
The Rules of the Game
Movie • 1939
Octave
The Emma Bovary Trial
Movie • 2021
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
La Bête Humaine
Movie • 1938
Cabuche
A Day in the Country
Movie • 1946
Père Poulain
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Movie • 1931
Master sergeant (uncredited)
Those of Our Land
Movie • 1915
Self
La P’tite Lili
Movie • 1927
Man with Bowler Hat
Charleston Parade
Movie • 1927
Angel
The Spanish Earth
Movie • 1937
Narrator (voice)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Movie • 1967
Self
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Movie • 1969
Self
Louis Lumière
Movie • 1968
Self
Backbiters
Movie • 1927
le sous-préfet
Little Red Riding Hood
Movie • 1930
Compère le Loup
The Pursuit of Happiness
Movie • 1930
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
Un tournage à la campagne
Movie • 1994
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Movie • 1967
Self
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Movie • 1969
Jean Renoir
Langlois
Movie • 1970
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Movie • 1967
Self - Interviewee
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Movie • 1956
Self
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Movie • 2012
Self
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Movie • 1961
Interviewee
The Christian Licorice Store
Movie • 1971
Self
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Life Is Ours
Movie • 1936
Le patron du bistrot
D'un Céline l'autre
Movie • 1969
Self
Le Parti du cinéma
Movie • 2021
Self (voice) (archive footage)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Movie • 1974
The Narrator/Host
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self