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According to Guillermo Del Toro, the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir told his son – Jean Renoir, the film-maker – that a truly gifted artist should try to paint the same tree over and over again. “He said that the artist should never move on; he should just go back obsessively,” Del Toro says. “I really believe that you finish your life and no matter what you did or didn’t do, you ended...
News: To celebrate its 75th birthday the BFI are running two special promotions this September. The first sees 75 DVDs from their catalogue on sale at the special price of £9.99 nationwide throughout September, a reduction of half the normal RRP. This o...
This past weekend the Siren saw a great film: Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange . Jacques Prévert's witty script is an absolute marvel of construction that compresses a large number of fully drawn characters into a complex narrative, and does so in (get this) 80 minutes. (As John McElwee observed this week in his fine review of the film of the moment , "current films too often start with a bang...
In L magazine Mark Asch already beat me to the punch, but it’s still worth noting right off the bat critic David Shipman’s claim that Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition (1959-1961), his three-film, ten-hour epic chronicling of a young...
Justin E. H. Smith There is a scene from Jean Renoir's magnificient 1939 film, La regle du jeu, in which the members of a decadent French nobility, looking for ways to pass the time at a country estate, decide to...
I am absolutely convinced that a great artist only two or three times in his life has a clear and complete vision of an artwork in his head beforehand. . .But if what I know about many great artists is true, then they were for the most part experimenters. They experimented all the time, testing and trying; they were mainly like a sculptor who molds the clay with his fingers and, after he sees
9:45am PST - Southerner, The (1945) - A sharecropper fights the elements to start his own farm. Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Jean Renoir. BW-91 mins, TV-G In 1945 Zachary Scott played both the greasy, pencil thin-mustachioed heel in Mildred Pierce and the stoic, simple sharecropper struggling to carve a life for himself and family in [...]
"What Howard Hawks did best - whichever studio signed the check (over 44 years, he worked for them all), whatever genre he operated in (ditto) - was clear space for his actors and encourage them to really react to...
Listing his favorite directors for me one time—among them John Ford and Howard Hawks—Orson Welles concluded: “… And Jean Renoir! I’ve loved him most of all. …” In the 1950s, the Young Turks of the French New Wave—Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Chabrol, etc.—acclaimed Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock but reserved the highest place in their pantheon for Jean Renoir: They called him “the father of the New Wave.”...
You're going to get on that plane, Gentle Reader, with Victor where you belong. This evening I'm going to watch for the (I don't know) fifth? eighth? time Casablanca (1942). Happily, it's playing on a single, giant screen in a...
A European village battles for its freedom against Nazi rule. CAST: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith, Una O'Connor DIR: Jean Renoir (1943)
DVD Video Review: In 1938, a put-upon cop in an small African village turns killer in Coup de Torchon, the third of five films directed by Bertrand Tavernier released by Optimum. Review by Gary Couzens, including a comparison with the Criterion edition.
Issue 60 of Bright Lights Film Journal just went live. from the editor Our bad! features foyer Who Do You Love? Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game Reconsidered Was Le Grande Jean too soft on the aristos? Twenty-One Years in the Midday Sun: Revisiting Roger Ebert's Cannes Here's lookin' at you, Roger articles antechamber What's Your Function? How Movies Are Made You mean you've tried panicking? One...
