PHILADELPHIA — “I think that a great painter is even rarer than a great film director,” Jean Renoir said. It was 1967, and that French filmmaker was sitting on the bank of the river Ource, amiably ...

Plenty has been written about Jean Renoir, by himself and others. Nevertheless a new book on the filmmaker is always received with interest. After all, Renoir was not only a true artist himself but ...

Well-heeled with decades of kudos (and citations from the André Bazin army), Jean Renoir’s The River (1951) makes a restored-print reappearance, ready to seduce newbies who’ve only seen it on video ...

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Any personalized list of great films is bound to contain films we’ve watched so many times they’ve practically crawled into our DNA. The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir’s wry, ruefully affectionate ...

Sketched in tones as bright and gorgeous as those its namesake artist put to canvas, the gauzy biopic Renoir portrays the domestic disruptions —... "A girl out of nowhere, sent by a dead woman." That ...

Following Main Slate and Spotlight, the 61st New York Film Festival has unveiled its Revivals lineup, featuring new restorations of classic and overlooked films. Highlights include Manoel de ...

The lights in the cavernous Lumiere hall subside and, before each film in the official selection, the Cannes festival offers a short subject: a minute-or-two segment from a film by the immortal French ...

The bucolic riverside scenes which make up most of the story were shot on location. The director was banking on beautiful summer sunshine, but the weather turned out terrible, with torrents of rain ...