Jean Renoir
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min., ) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 243
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
6) La chienne
Series
Criterion collection volume 818
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out.
Language
Français
Description
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, Lulu, and makes her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
7) The River
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold. Harriet lives in a house overlooking the river with her English family. One day, a young American arrives at the home of his cousin, Mr. John, a widower who lives next door to Harriet's family. The young man becomes the focus of attention for Harriet, her older friend Valerie, and for...
Series
Criterion collection volume 242
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
DVD édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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...
11) Toni
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
Français
Description
Set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.
12) La bête humaine
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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 volume 239
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (89 min., 125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Les bas-fonds: 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: Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel landlady, and her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 746
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
15) The river
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
4K UHD + Blu-ray combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis's country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed...
17) The southerner
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer trying to raise a family and a crop of cotton in the face of extraordinary challenges, both natural and societal.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
19) Jean Renoir
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's édition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 580 min.) : silent and sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Whirlpool of fate: after the suspicious death of her father a young girl runs away from her brutal uncle and joins a gypsy camp.
Nana: A women rises from poverty to become a dance hall queen and courtesan in 1860s Paris, destroying the lives of the men who fall in love with her.
Charleston parade: shows the journey of a man in blackface to a post-Apocalyptic Paris, where he meets a girl who teaches him the Charleston, and they leave together in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Renoir's antiwar classic is based on the true story of French aviators who escape from a WWI prison camp.