Jean Renoir
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.
Acting (31 movies)
The Rules of the Game
1939
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021
La Bête Humaine
1938
A Day in the Country
1946
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931
Those of Our Land
1915
La P’tite Lili
1927
Charleston Parade
1927
The Spanish Earth
1937
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969
Louis Lumière
1968
Backbiters
1927
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
Un tournage à la campagne
1994
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969
Langlois
1970
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012
Jean Renoir parle de son art
1961
The Christian Licorice Store
1971
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
Life Is Ours
1936
D'un Céline l'autre
1969
Le Parti du cinéma
2021
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
Directing (40 movies)
The Rules of the Game
1939
Grand Illusion
1937
Experiment in Evil
1960
La Chienne
1931
The Little Match Girl
1928
La Bête Humaine
1938
The Elusive Corporal
1962
Picnic on the Grass
1959
Madame Bovary
1934
The Woman on the Beach
1947
French Cancan
1955
Swamp Water
1941
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
The River
1951
The Southerner
1945
This Land Is Mine
1943
A Day in the Country
1946
Life Is Ours
1936
The Lower Depths
1936
Nana
1926
Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932
Toni
1935
The Sad Sack
1928
Elena and Her Men
1956
The Golden Coach
1952
Night at the Crossroads
1932
Charleston Parade
1927
The Tournament
1928
Baby's Laxative
1931
Le Bled
1929
Backbiters
1927
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
Whirlpool of Fate
1925
A Salute to France
1944
A Bum Deal
1935
Marquitta
1927
Chotard and Co.
1933
La Marseillaise
1938
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936
The Ways of Love
1950