Wikio - Jean Renoir

Ronald Bergan on why Ron Howard is the antithesis of an auteur (The Guardian)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:25:52 GMT

Ever since Francois Truffaut coined the phrase "la politique des auteurs" in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1954, critics have discussed the "auteur theory", though it only became fully recognised in America eight years later in an essay by . It is an often misused term - for example the "auteur theory" does not refer to directors like Jean Renoir, Yasujiro Ozu, Alfred Hitchcock, Carl Dreyer, Luis...

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Sunny Spells (Le Bruit des Gens Autour) (Variety.com)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:18:22 GMT

Film Reviews: Echoes of Jean Renoir and Robert Altman ring through the wings of "Sunny Spells," a captivating backstage dramedy set during France's annual Avignon Theater Festival.

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From Catastrophe: Jean Renoir's The Southerner (1945) (Tativille)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:12:00 GMT

... career without which the best in latter-day indie rock would seem unthinkable. Likewise, director Jean Renoir's exit from France following the critical and commercial disaster of his ultimate master work The Rules of the Game (1939), marks another such node in the history of artistic expression. No filmmaker can claim the sustained level of achievement that Renoir attained...

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Beautiful Losers - 8/5/2008 (filmcritic.com Movie Reviews)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:43:02 GMT

In Jean Renoir's 1936 Popular Front comedy-drama The Crime of M. Lange, an unsavory publisher takes it on the lam and leaves his staff in the lurch. Unwilling to break up their camaraderie, the staff reconstitutes itself as a cooperative, publishing a grassroots pulp western series featuring the happy-go-lucky cowboy Arizona Jim.In Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard's energized...

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Flit, float, fleetly ferry to Bainbridge for "The Sound of Music" (Seattle Times)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:35:14 GMT

... ... "Seattle Art Museum tonight launches "Like Father, Like Son: The Impressionist Cinema of Jean Renoir," a collection of four Friday-night films that showcase the French filmmaker's family culture (learned from his father, the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir) of beauty and humanity. The series begins at 7:30 tonight with the 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning," and continues...

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Guillermo Del Toro shifts from Hellboy to Hobbit (Times Online)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:26:58 GMT

According to Guillermo Del Toro, the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir told his son – Jean Renoir, the film-maker – that a truly gifted artist should try to paint the same tree over and over again. “He said that the artist should never move on; he should just go back obsessively,” Del Toro says. “I really believe that you finish your life and no matter what you did or...

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BFI 75th Birthday Celebrations (DVD Times)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:48:46 GMT

To celebrate its 75th birthday the BFI are running two special promotions this September. The first sees 75 DVDs from their catalogue on sale at the special price of £9.99 nationwide throughout September, a reduction of half the normal RRP.This one-of-a-kind promotion includes Jean-Luc Godard’s ; Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle rouge; Terence Davies’ ; Jack Clayton’s ; Luchino Visconti’s...

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Le Crime de DVD: A cri de coeur from the Siren (Self-Styled Siren)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:57:00 GMT

This past weekend the Siren saw a great film: Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange . Jacques Prévert's witty script is an absolute marvel of construction that compresses a large number of fully drawn characters into a complex narrative, and does so in (get this) 80 minutes. (As John McElwee observed this week in his fine review of the film of the moment , "current films too often...

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The Human Condition (ReverseBlog)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:10:35 GMT

... on the novel by Jumpei Gornikawa, might be the last great humanistic films in the tradition of Jean Renoir, as well as a haunting swan song for the humanistic project in its own right. Click here to read all of Michael Joshua Rowin's piece on Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition

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A history of creative sound in film (abridged) (The blog Film)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:14:16 GMT

... in a studio in 1929, he added street noises and boulevard songs to drown some of the dialogue. Jean Renoir, who believed passionately in direct sound, shot his second sound film, (1931), in the noisy streets of Montmartre, without using any dubbing at all, creating a real, habitable world. Brecht spoke of "the theatre whose stage is the street", and for Othon (1972), Jean-Marie...

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Biographical dictionary of film: Meryl Streep (The blog Film)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Those doubting in advance may be justified, but Streep has a very good voice and the great urge to sing more in films - the classic role of the easy-going romantic with too many men in her life to be sure who fathered her own children can make for routine melodrama, or something as lofty as Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach. And if you think Meryl Streep is beyond looking very attractive...

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For Christ's Sake, Who'll Help Me Out of this Skin!? (3quarksdaily)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:38:58 GMT

Justin E. H. Smith There is a scene from Jean Renoir's magnificient 1939 film, La regle du jeu, in which the members of a decadent French nobility, looking for ways to pass the time at a country estate, decide to...

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discovery (such stuff)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:47:00 GMT

... more in himself through the landscape, unconsciously—that he may just create a great painting.-- Jean Renoir, from "A Conversation with Jean Renoir" (1956 interview with Gideon Bachmann), included in Jean Renoir Interviews ed. Bert CardulloFilmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir []Excerpt from Jean...

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TCM Pick O’ The Day — Friday, June 6th (LIBERTAS)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:57:18 GMT

9:45am PST - Southerner, The (1945) - A sharecropper fights the elements to start his own farm. Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Jean Renoir. BW-91 mins, TV-G In 1945 Zachary Scott played both the greasy, pencil thin-mustachioed heel in Mildred Pierce and the stoic, simple sharecropper struggling to carve a life for himself and family in [...]

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Late Hawks. (GreenCine Daily)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:48:05 GMT

... in the New York Observer . "Why the long wait? Like his illustrious contemporaries, John Ford and Jean Renoir , he is as difficult to teach as the equally sublime Alfred Hitchcock and Buster Keaton are easy - that is, easier to teach to young people, and easier for young people to appreciate." Late Hawks ."> Continued reading Late Hawks .... Late Hawks ."> Comments (0) Comments on...

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The Best Director, Ever (The Politicker)

Tue, 27 May 2008 16:40:27 GMT

Listing his favorite directors for me one time—among them John Ford and Howard Hawks—Orson Welles concluded: “… And Jean Renoir! I’ve loved him most of all. …” In the 1950s, the Young Turks of the French New Wave—Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Chabrol, etc.—acclaimed Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock but reserved the highest place in their pantheon for Jean Renoir: They called him...

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Arms and the Bogey-Man (Jeremayakovka)

Thu, 22 May 2008 21:06:55 GMT

... of remembered love ... and the call to war's nightmare wakening. In my mind it bookends neatly Jean Renoir's (1937), the slower paced but equally beautiful (not black-and-white, more like ink-and-milk), equally dreamy long goodbye to a world pushed aside by war, but sustained by Love transmogrified into Duty and Duty transmogrified into Love.(Warning: Do NOT watch the clip if you...

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This Land Is Mine - 2:40am (ABC TV)

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:17:13 GMT

A European village battles for its freedom against Nazi rule. CAST: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith, Una O'Connor DIR: Jean Renoir (1943)

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Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (DVD Times)

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:30:31 GMT

... Bertrand Tavernier has a reputation, rightly, as a humanist director. As with his great compatriot Jean Renoir, he gives considerable space to his characters and everyone has their reasons. That's true even with a film as dark and seemingly cynical as this one. It threw critics into a loop on its first release – certainly in Britain, as the only two Tavernier films released up to...

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Bright Lights Film Journal 60 posted (Bright Lights After Dark)

noreply@blogger.com (Bright Lights Film Journal) — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:41:00 GMT

Issue 60 of Bright Lights Film Journal just went live. from the editor Our bad! features foyer Who Do You Love? Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game Reconsidered Was Le Grande Jean too soft on the aristos? Twenty-One Years in the Midday Sun: Revisiting Roger Ebert's Cannes Here's lookin' at you, Roger articles antechamber What's Your Function? How Movies Are Made You mean you've...

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