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5 days ago · The Complete Jean Renoir — a definitive retrospective of films by the greatest of all directors. “[Renoir] guided actors, but did not dictate to them. In this way, he took full advantage of each actor’s personality.
3 days ago · Nonetheless, some of cinema’s most influential artists of the 20th century hailed from France: from René Clair, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, Max Ophüls, Jean Cocteau, and Henri-Georges Clouzot ...
3 days ago · Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion is the best World War I movie in film history. A cornerstone work of the poetic realism movement, The Grand Illusion tells the story of a group of French soldiers, from varying class backgrounds, who become prisoners of war. Despite one of the French captains forming an unexpected bond with a German officer, the ...
9 hours ago · Contrairement à Jean Renoir qui avait adapté le même livre en situant l'action à l'époque de la publication, dans la France de la Belle Époque, Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carrière font le choix ...
2 days ago · Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London.
4 days ago · The most influential film directors in the history of French cinema are Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard. France has also been a leading destination for filmmakers and actors from around the world.
4 days ago · Despite citing the works of Jean Renoir and John Ford as two major influences who shaped his way of conceptualising the cinematic image, there’s one figure who towered above the rest, at least in Welles’ opinion.
