1894-09-15 ( 130 years old ) in Paris, France
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.
Movies
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021-09-15
Le Parti du cinéma
2021-02-01
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017-04-30
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015-08-27
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014-11-02
Un tournage à la campagne
1994-08-10
The Christian Licorice Store
1971-11-01
Langlois
1970-09-19
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969-10-02
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969-09-14
D'un Céline l'autre
1969-05-08
Louis Lumière
1968-01-01
Jean Renoir parle de son art
1961-11-11
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956-05-24
A Day in the Country
1946-05-21
The Rules of the Game
1939-07-09
La Bête Humaine
1938-12-23
The Spanish Earth
1937-07-10
Life Is Ours
1936-04-07
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931-10-09
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930-05-26
Little Red Riding Hood
1930-05-14
Backbiters
1927-11-09
La P’tite Lili
1927-10-01
Charleston Parade
1927-03-19
Those of Our Land
1915-11-22
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