Jean Renoir

Review: A muse for 'Renoir,' father and son

2013-03-28 14:40:00

"Renoir" is a lush, involving film that deals not with one Renoir but two, as well as the strong-minded woman who was a key player in both their lives. The year is 1915, the setting the gorgeous landscape of the French Riviera, and Renoir the father,...

Award-winning Italian and French classics on tap this week

2013-03-21 06:00:00

Italian classic films directed by masters of cinema Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni will be vying for viewers' attention Thursday evening. The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood presents Fellini's...

David Thomson takes a wide view of movies in 'The Big Screen'

2012-11-16 04:00:00

Even the most ardent traditionalists have to acknowledge that vast, sweeping changes are at work within the realm of film culture. The very practice of shooting on actual physical film, not to mention running that film through a projector for viewing, has...

Cannes 2012: Actor Norman Lloyd remembers Hitchcock, Renoir

2012-05-25 16:38:12

Tonino Guerra dies at 92; renowned Italian screenwriter

2012-03-24 00:00:00

Tonino Guerra, an internationally renowned Italian screenwriter who collaborated with Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and other greats of Italian and world cinema on films such as Fellini's "Amarcord" and Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and "Blow-Up,"...

Around Town: The Sherman brothers' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'

2012-03-08 16:39:37

Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra dies at 92

2012-03-23 16:37:49

Around Town: Happy 85th to Grauman's Chinese Theatre

2012-04-19 16:39:12

Critic's Notebook: Stravinsky in L.A.

2011-11-19 16:33:04

Jean Renoir retrospective at LACMA

2010-03-10 00:00:00

Extraordinary French film director Jean Renoir found the inspiration for one of his seminal early talkies, 1932's "Boudu Saved From Drowning," from an unlikely source -- the family pooch. "Boudu," which Paul Mazursky remade in 1986 as "Down and Out in...

Gold Derby nuggets: 'The Social Network' connects | Clint Eastwood honored for tolerance | 'Boardwalk Empire' preview

2010-09-15 16:33:51

L.A. Film Critics pick a winner: Paul Mazursky gets career achievement award

2010-10-25 16:32:35

Ingrid Bergman checks her makeup in a mirror held by French film director Jean Renoir on the set of "Elena and Her Men" at the Saint Maurice studios near Paris on Dec. 6, 1955.

2012-11-23 16:22:00

Jean Gabin, left, and Pierre Fresnay costar in "Grand Illusion," Jean Renoir 's classic antiwar drama, released in 1939, about two French officers captured by the Germans during World War I.

2010-03-09 13:36:37

grossed over $60 million and earned its R-rating due to language and a scene in which a topless woman is having sex.

2008-06-11 11:32:45