Jean Renoir
Series
Criterion collection ; 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic charade that builds to a shattering climax.
Series
Criterion collection ; 305
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
Series
Criterion collection ; 216
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
A scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, in which a weekend at a marquis's countryside chateau lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances. The film was a victim of tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after premiere audiences rejected it in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. It wasn't reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned...
Series
Criterion collection ; 243
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Nineteenth-century Paris comes alive in Jean Renoir's tale of the opening of the Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women: an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl-turned-cancan star. Includes a cameo by Edith Piaf.
Series
Criterion collection ; 244
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze de Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir's romantic comedy stars Ingrid Bergman as a Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love.
Series
Criterion collection ; 242
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy in Central America who receives a golden coach and gives it to the star of a touring commedia dell'arte company. Shot and released simultaneously in English, French, and Italian language versions; Renoir was said to prefer this English language version of the three.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
"Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in a daring escape attempt." --
Series
Criterion collection ; 239
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
Les bas-fonds (93 min.): A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and to takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
Donzoko (125 min.): Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel...
16) La bête humaine
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Series
Criterion collection ; 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
"Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II." --
18) The southerner
Publisher
Film Detective
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Realistic drama of life in the rural South in the mid-twentieth century. A family of tenant farmers struggles against poverty, illness, and nature.
Cotton farmer Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) struggles to raise his crop as he battles the weather, illnesses, floods, and a jealous neighbor. Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Norman Lloyd, and Estelle Taylor star in this compelling drama from renowned French director Jean Renoir (The Rules of...
