I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
Every great movie holds two similar distinctions: they appear fresh and modern, no matter when they were made, and they are almost always ahead of their time. Of all of these movies, Jean Renoir’s seminal The Rules of the Game (Le règle … Continue reading THE RULES OF THE GAME
The real source of happiness, not just in the cinema but in any kind of human endeavor, is the fact of creating. Once a thing is done, well, it’s done. Of course it’s very nice to be applauded by audiences … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 15, 1894
My dream is of a craftsman’s cinema in which the author can express himself as directly as the painter in his paintings or the writer in his books. —Jean Renoir Continue reading Born On This Day — September 15
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience and a little love we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man. —Jean Renoir Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, March 24, 2013
A director only makes one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. —Jean Renoir Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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