Jean Renoir

The subjects of Crystal Moselle’s award-winning 2015 documentary show off their voracious appetite for cinema, saluting films by everyone from Stan Brakhage to Jean Renoir to Alex Cox to Wes Anderson.

The director of Something Wild reminisces about his encounters with John Cassavetes, Jean Renoir, and David Lean.

Argentine writer-director Matías Piñeiro happily succumbs to Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, and Jean Vigo.

Paul Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and American Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. A contributing editor of Film Quarterly, he is currently at work on a critical biography of Jean Renoir.

David Thompson writes on film, coedited the book Scorsese on Scorsese, and directs arts documentaries, often on filmmakers, including Jean Renoir, Milos Forman, and Robert Altman.

Christopher Faulkner is a professor of film studies and the director of the interdisciplinary Cultural Mediations Ph.D. program at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir and, with Olivier Curchod, La Règle...

Alexander Sesonske was a film-studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Jean Renoir: The French Films, 1924–1939.

Jul 24, 2012 — Trained as a musician, Jean Grémillon became one of French cinema’s most lyrical artists. His most beloved films were made during World War II.

Aug 1, 2025 — On our minds this week: Renoir, Malick, Rozier, and a trip to FIDMarseille.

Jan 14, 2025 — In this digressive, intensely interior masterpiece, Jean Eustache mines the dramas of his past romances while also capturing the disillusionment of young Parisians in the aftermath of May 1968.