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Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics
of film studies for as long as they've been available and are
considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism.
Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most
important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of
the influential Cahiers du Cinema, which under his leadership
became one of the world's most distinguished publications.
Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who contributed a short
foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he
became the protege of Francois Truffaut, who honors him touchingly
in his forword to Volume II. This new edition includes graceful
forewords to each volume by Bazin scholar and biographer Dudley
Andrew, who reconsiders Bazin and his place in contemporary film
study. The essays themselves are erudite but always accessible,
intellectual, and stimulating. As Renoir puts it, the essays of
Bazin "will survive even if the cinema does not."
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French Cancan (DVD)
Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Valentine Tessier, …
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Jean Renoir directs this musical comedy drama set amidst the
glittering nightlife of late 19th-century Paris. Jean Gabin stars
as theatre impresario Henri Danglard, who plans to base his new
club - the Moulin Rouge - around a modern reinvention of
traditional cancan dancing. To this end, he hires pretty young
washerwoman Nini (Francoise Arnoul) with a view to harnessing her
natural talents and making her the star of the show. But Henri's
attentions to Nini soon ignite the jealousy of his bellydancer
lover Lola (Maria Felix).
Here is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in
the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir,the boy who
became the director many consider the greatest in history. Francois
Truffaut called him an infallible filmmaker . . . Renoir has
succeeded in creating the most alive films in the history of
cinema, films which still breathe forty years after they were
made." In this book, Jean Renoir (1894-1979)presents his world,
from his father's Montemarte studio to his own travels in Paris,
Hollywood, and India. Here are tantalizing secrets about his
greatest films, The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion, The
River, A Day in the Country, La Bete Humaine, Toni. But most of
all, Renoir shows us himself: a man if dazzling simplicity, immense
creativity, and profound humanity.
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Renoir, My Father (Paperback, Main)
Dorothy Weaver, Jean Renoir, Randolph Weaver, Robert L. Herbert
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In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such
masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of
the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting
Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of
fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he
worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging
talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double
portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished
art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir,
and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies
we have."
Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white
images.
Renoir on Renoir is a 1990 collection of essays by, and interviews
of, the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir, who created such classics
as The Grand Illusion, The River and The Rules of the Game.
Renoir's career in cinema, which straddled the transition from
silent film to the talkies, has influenced a subsequent generation
of filmmakers. Between 1954 and 1967, Renoir was interviewed by
such eminent filmmakers and theorists as Jacques Rivette, Francois
Truffaut and Jacques Becker. The interviews were originally
recorded and published in the distinguished French film review
Cahiers du Cinema, and shown on French television. They are an
engaging account of Renoir's deep commitment to his chosen
profession. Providing additional information on his ideas and
theories on screen writing and directing, Renoir's essays also
include lively anecdotes of the genesis and evolution of each of
his films. They reveal behind-the-scenes of some of the
masterpieces of French cinema.
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