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Renoir on Renoir

Renoir on Renoir

Renoir on Renoir

Interviews, Essays, and Remarks
Jean Renoir
Carol Volk
July 1990
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    Renoir on Renoir is a 1990 collection of essays by, and interviews of, the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir, who created such classics as The Grand Illusion, The River and The Rules of the Game. Renoir's career in cinema, which straddled the transition from silent film to the talkies, has influenced a subsequent generation of filmmakers. Between 1954 and 1967, Renoir was interviewed by such eminent filmmakers and theorists as Jacques Rivette, Francois Truffaut and Jacques Becker. The interviews were originally recorded and published in the distinguished French film review Cahiers du Cinéma, and shown on French television. They are an engaging account of Renoir's deep commitment to his chosen profession. Providing additional information on his ideas and theories on screen writing and directing, Renoir's essays also include lively anecdotes of the genesis and evolution of each of his films. They reveal behind-the-scenes of some of the masterpieces of French cinema.

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    July 1990
    Paperback
    9780521385930
    304 pages
    229 × 152 × 17 mm
    0.45kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Foreword to the American edition Henry Breitrose
    • Preliminary note to the French edition André S. Labarthe
    • Foreword to the French edition Claude Gauteur and Jean Narboni
    • Acknowledgements to the French edition
    • Part I. Interviews in Cahiers du Cinéma:
    • 1. First interview Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut
    • 2. Second interview Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut
    • 3. Third interview: my next films Michel Delahaye and Jean-André Fieschi
    • 4. Fourth interview: the progression of ideas Michel Delahaye and Jean Narboni
    • Part II. Television Interviews:
    • 5. Jean Renoir talks about his art
    • 6. Jean Renoir the boss, the search for relativity, the rule and its exception
    • Part III. Remarks:
    • 7. Jean Renoir presents twenty of his films [for television]
    • 8. Hollywood conversations [from Cahiers du cinéma]
    • Afterword
    • Filmography
    • Name index
    • Title index.
      Contributors
    • Henry Breitrose, André S. Labarthe, Claude Gauteur, Jean Narboni, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Jean Narboni

    • Author
    • Jean Renoir
    • Translator
    • Carol Volk