French Cancan. Renoir’s 1955 musical drama is a feast for the eyes and ears. It reteamed Renoir with his favorite prewar leading man, Jean Gabin, who had starred in several of the director’s ...

Film director Jean Renoir grappled with his father's legacy. "I have spent my life trying to determine the extent of the influence of my father upon me," he wrote. Renoir is shown above filming ...

Extraordinary French film director Jean Renoir found the inspiration for one of his seminal early talkies, 1932’s “Boudu Saved From Drowning,” from an unlikely source -- the family pooch.

Janus Films will re-release Renoir's The Rules of the Game in select US theaters - starting at New York's Film Forum on December 23rd, 2022 and at Los Angeles' Los Feliz Theater on December 29th ...

The canon depends largely on availability, which is why many of the great films of Jean Renoir languish in undue obscurity. One of them, though, and one of the rarest—“Night at the Crossroads ...

Buoyed by the extraordinary success of “Le Roi et l’oiseau,” Studiocanal will give a theatrical opening in France to its latest restored film classic, Jean Renoir’s “La Bete Humaine ...

I enjoyed Peter Tonguette’s article on Jean Renoir’s 1951 film “The River” (Masterpiece, Sept. 4). When Renoir was in Calcutta to shoot the movie, he was helped in location scouting by a ...

Watching one of Renoir’s greatest and most misunderstood masterworks—featuring its own oddly beneficent yet destructive tempest—while Sandy raged was, in its way, a perfect storm.

Review: ‘The Crime of Monsieur Lange’ is one of Jean Renoir’s least known films. But a restored version shows it’s the most pure fun By Kenneth Turan Nov. 21, 2017 12:20 PM PT Film Critic ...

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 ...