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” (The Human Beast) ...

The curtain rises: After spending a disappointing exile in Hollywood during World War II, the great French director Jean Renoir of “Grand Illusion” and “The Rules of the Game” fame returned home.

"Let the game begin." Janus Films has revealed a brand new trailer for the 4K restoration and re-release of the Jean Renoir 1939 classic The Rules of the Game, considered one of the best films ever ...

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 young local ...

Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir hang in every major museum in Southern California. The French master’s son, filmmaker Jean Renoir, was nominated for an Oscar in 1946. Believe it or not, there’s ...

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,” from ...

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 ...

Director Gilles Bourdos takes an appreciative look at Andree Heuschling's impact on the lives of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean. By Todd McCarthy The story of the young woman who was ...

A Paris auction house is next month to sell a previously unlisted work by French impressionist Auguste Renoir of his toddler son Jean, who went on to become an Oscar-winning filmmaker. His works ...

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