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Belle
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by Belle » Thu May 31, 2018 1:24 am
Only one of my favourite filmmakers! I couldn't read the article as it was behind a paywall (if you'd like to cut and paste).
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jserraglio
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by jserraglio » Thu May 31, 2018 3:35 am
Note: Some of the links to Pierre-Auguste's paintings and to Jean's two complete silent movies were added by me. Also the link to the commentaries on “A Day in the Country”, “Grand Illusion” and “The Rules of the Game.”
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NYT ART REVIEW
Dad Left a Big Impression: The Renoir Family Inheritance
Renoir: Father and Son/Painting and Cinema
NYT Critic's Pick
By Jason Farago
May 30, 2018
PHILADELPHIA — “I think that a great painter is even rarer than a great film director,” Jean Renoir said. It was 1967, and that French filmmaker was sitting on the bank of the river Ource, amiably chatting during the making of a documentary by Jacques Rivette, a New Wave director who idolized Renoir’s “Grand Illusion,” “The Crime of Monsieur Lange” and the masterpiece “The Rules of the Game.”
New York Times Critics' Picks: “Grand Illusion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZkrioz5Zc0
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Belle
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by Belle » Thu May 31, 2018 9:16 pm
A thoroughly pleasurable read, thank you!! I've never seen "Rules of the Game", incredibly enough, but the short of the film discussed here reminds me of the aesthetic of Ernst Lubitsch.
I was struck by the natural beauty of the woman in the screen test for "A Day in the Country" compared to the cosmetically and surgically enhanced images of post-war American film actors. The French Arletty had that natural beauty too.
This comment I could relate to: ".... it can be easy to tire of his soft, honey-hued paintings of undressed women." That's exactly how I react when to listening to much of the music of Mozart!!! And I couldn't locate the photograph of Renoir senior sitting with that rug over his knees with Jean standing behind him, as discussed in the article.
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jserraglio
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by jserraglio » Fri Jun 01, 2018 6:31 am
Belle wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 9:16 pm
And I couldn't locate the photograph of Renoir senior sitting with that rug over his knees with Jean standing behind him, as discussed in the article.
I couldn't locate that photograph either.
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