Jean Renoir (1894 - 1979)

French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author

* September 15, 1894 Paris, France
 February 12, 1979 Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA


Vintage magazines

Mon Ciné, nr. 146, 4 December 1924

Books by Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir Renoir, My Father Jean Renoir
Renoir, My Father
London, 1962

Books on Jean Renoir

Barry Nevin Cracking Gilles Deleuze's crystal Barry Nevin
Cracking Gilles Deleuze's crystal, Narrative space-time in the films of Jean Renoir
Edinburgh, 2018

Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds.) A companion to Jean Renoir Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds.)
A companion to Jean Renoir
Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA, 2013

Helmut Färber
Partie/Renoir
München/Paris, 2010

Bert Cardullo
Five French filmmakers, Renoir, Bresson, Tati, Truffaut, Rohmer: essays and interviews
Newcastle, 2008

Bert Cardullo (editor) Jean Renoir Bert Cardullo (editor)
Jean Renoir, Interviews
Jackson, 2005

Irving Singer
Three philosophical filmmakers, Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir
Cambridge, Mass., 2004

Martin O'Shaughnessy
Jean Renoir
Manchester, UK; New York, 2000

Books with substantial mentioning of Jean Renoir

David Thomson
A light in the dark, A history of movie directors
New York, 2020

George Stevens, Jr (ed.)
Conversations with the great moviemakers of Hollywood's golden age at the American Film Institute
New York, 2006

John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume Two
New York, NY, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Thirties Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Thirties
London, 1983

Books with an entry on Jean Renoir

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Larry Langman Destination Hollywood Larry Langman
Destination Hollywood, The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2000

Articles on Jean Renoir

Lutz Bacher, David L. Loew, Renoir's "French Method", and The Southerner, in: Film History, vol. 21, 2009 pp. 229-256

David Thompson, Missing links, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 9, 2004 pp. 96

Christopher Faulkner, Jean Renoir addresses the League of American Writers, in: Film History, vol. 8, 1996 pp. 64-71

Paul Schrader, A man of excess, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1, 1995 pp. 24-29