The Poetry of Murder in Jean Renoir’s ‘Toni’
Renoir's Toni is a grim piece of work saturated in summer sunshine and tree-speckled shadows.
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Investing in Surfaces in Renoir’s ‘Toni’
Discovery of what lies beyond the surface—or better, the profound meaning invested in surfaces—is the central motif of Renoir's Toni.
The Inexorable Line of Violence ‘Le Crime de Monsieur Lange’
In Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange the beguiling depravity of the capitalist not only wreaks injustice upon us, it seduces us into complicity in that injustice.
UCLA Film & Television Archive to the Rescue
The Chase, Too Late for Tears, Woman on the Run and The Southerner are all examples of postwar indie cinema that had fallen through the cracks -- until now.
Unrealistic Colors and Naturalistic Philosophies in Jean Renoir’s ‘The River’
In The River, Renoir transcends his own attractive colors, stumbling into a “realistic” philosophy of nature that the portraiture of color so often forbids.