Jean Renoir filmography
Jean Renoir (5 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French filmmaker and writer. He started out in French silent cinema before he established himself in the 1930s as one of the major exponents of poetic realism. During World War II he moved to the United States, where he made a few American films before he returned to European cinema in the 1950s.[1]
Filmography
[edit]Renoir was involved in making the following films.[2]
Director
[edit]| Year | Original title | English title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | La fille de l'eau | The Whirlpool of Fate | |
| 1926 | Nana | ||
| 1927 | Sur un air de Charleston | Charleston Parade | |
| Marquitta | presumed lost | ||
| Catherine ou Une vie sans joie | Backbiters | co-directed with Albert Dieudonné in 1924, re-edited and released in 1927 | |
| 1928 | "La petite marchande d'allumettes" | "The Little Match Girl" | |
| Tire-au-flanc | The Sad Sack | ||
| Le tournoi dans la cité | The Tournament | ||
| 1929 | Le Bled | final silent film | |
| 1931 | On purge bébé | first sound film | |
| La Chienne | The Bitch | ||
| 1932 | La nuit de carrefour | Night at the Crossroads | |
| Boudu sauvé des eaux | Boudu Saved from Drowning | ||
| 1933 | Chotard et cie | Chotard and Company | |
| 1934 | Madame Bovary | ||
| 1935 | Toni | ||
| 1936 | Le crime de Monsieur Lange | The Crime of Monsieur Lange | |
| Les Bas-fonds | The Lower Depths | ||
| 1937 | La grande illusion | Grand Illusion | |
| 1938 | La Marseillaise | ||
| La bête humaine | |||
| 1939 | La règle du jeu | The Rules of the Game | |
| 1941 | Swamp Water | first American film | |
| 1943 | This Land Is Mine | ||
| 1945 | The Southerner | ||
| "Salute to France" | documentary | ||
| 1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid | ||
| Partie de campagne | "A Day in the Country" | shot in 1936 | |
| 1947 | The Woman on the Beach | ||
| 1951 | The River | final American film | |
| 1952 | Le carrosse d'or | The Golden Coach | |
| 1955 | French Cancan | ||
| 1956 | Elena et les hommes | Elena and Her Men | |
| 1959 | Le Testament du docteur Cordelier | The Doctor's Horrible Experiment | |
| Le déjeuner sur l'herbe | Picnic on the Grass | ||
| 1962 | Le caporal épinglé | The Elusive Corporal | |
| "La scampagnata" | "The Picnic" | Segment in Il fiore e la violenza (The Flower and the Violence) | |
| 1970 | Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir | The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir |
Other credits
[edit]- 1936: La vie est à nous (Life Belongs to Us, as leader of collective of directors, also acted)
- 1940: L'or du Cristobal (Cristobal's Gold, dialogue)
References
[edit]- ^ Thomson, David (2010). The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Completely Updated and Expanded. Knopf Doubleday. pp. 810–812. ISBN 9780307594617.
- ^ Phillips, Alastair; Vincendeau, Ginette, eds. (2013). "Filmography". A Companion to Jean Renoir. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 572–584. ISBN 978-1-4443-3853-9.