This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and François Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle vague. Bazin left this examination of Renoir’s films unfinished when he died in 1958; Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other Cahiers du Cinéma regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoir’s oeuvre, from the avant-garde fantasy of La Petite Marchande d’Allumettes, through the epic humanism of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, to the quiet grace of The River and the profound theatricality of The Golden Coach. Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoir’s work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elaborated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.
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André Bazin (1918-1958) was a film critic for Le Parisien Libéré, the founder and editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, and director of cultural services at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématiques. Considered a father figure by the filmmakers of the ”new wave” of French cinema, he wrote dozens of important theoretical and critical essays on film, which are collected in the two volumes of What Is Cinema?
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Fundamental text for all who love Jean Renoir craft!,
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Andre Bazin makes a meticuluous and extraordinary analysis around the entire filmography of this famous filmmaker .
There are many issues to know and we have to miss the fact Andre Bazin jus only lived forty years . But in Francois Truffaut words , this is the most complete book about the greatest french filmmaker in the century . In my personal opinion only two directors overpasses him in this order: Robert Bresson and Marcel Carne.
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In a remarkable article published in Le Point in 1938 Jean Renoir looked back on his days as a silent film director a decade earlier. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The Golden Coach, Paris Does Strange Things, Catherine Hessling, The Human Beast, Marguerite Renoir, Jacques Becker, André Bazin, Pierre Lestringuez, Michel Simon, Pierre Renoir, Swamp Water, Claude Renoir, Jean Bachelet, Jean Gabin, Madame Bovary, The Southerner, André Cerf, Auguste Renoir, Gaston Modot, Charles Spaak, Joseph Kosma, Julius Caesar, Max Dalban, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Suzanne de Troye New!
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In a remarkable article published in Le Point in 1938 Jean Renoir looked back on his days as a silent film director a decade earlier. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The Golden Coach, Paris Does Strange Things, Catherine Hessling, The Human Beast, Marguerite Renoir, Jacques Becker, André Bazin, Pierre Lestringuez, Michel Simon, Pierre Renoir, Swamp Water, Claude Renoir, Jean Bachelet, Jean Gabin, Madame Bovary, The Southerner, André Cerf, Auguste Renoir, Gaston Modot, Charles Spaak, Joseph Kosma, Julius Caesar, Max Dalban, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Suzanne de Troye New!
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- Orson Welles by Andre Bazin in Front Matter
- Hold Autumn in Your Hand (Zia Book) by George Sessions Perry on page 268
- This Land Is Mine by Jean Renoir on page 263
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