Skip the latest 3-D box office gimmick and get acquainted with one of cinema’s giants this month. François Truffaut called Jean Renoir’s body of work “the most alive films in the history of the cinema ...

In the last years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s life, his second son, Jean, came home from World War I to convalesce. It was then that the injured lieutenant met Andree Heuschling, the beautiful model ...

For Jean Renoir (1894-1979), family goes beyond genetics to take on extra resonance. Considered a master of international cinema with “an already illustrious name,” Jean is the second son of ...

There were exceptions, of course, one of the most important being Cahiers du Cinéma, the magazine founded in 1951. In order to gather a cast familiar with the caf’ conc’ milieu, Renoir visited a ...

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 ...

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has the world’s largest collection of impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The museum’s next big exhibit will focus on this famous painter and his ...

French director Jean Renoir made some of the most revered dramas and comedies during the ‘30s before he headed to America. In his homeland, Renoir was behind the camera for the sly satirical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, home to the world’s ...