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.

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 ...

Jean Renoir, unshackled, at home and in Technicolor L.A. Times Archives Aug. 15, 2004 12 AM PT ...

Acclaimed director Jean Renoir (1894–1979) is perhaps best known for such films as La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937), Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country) (shot in 1936 ...

Jean Renoir, “Vase” (1919–1922), earthenware with polychrome decoration over tin-glaze, 11 x 7 3/4 in, The Barnes Foundation / Estate of Jean Renoir ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on Emile Zola ’s celebrated novel, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, Renoir ’s “Beast” was set after the Popular Front won elections in 1936.

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.

Jean Renoir films at LACMAThe next month will see a welcome explosion of the films of the great humanist director Jean Renoir at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, timed to coincide with a ...