Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

1953

Spine #241

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Part of Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

Criterion

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Jack Garfein director

“Jean Renoir, one of my favorites. I met him. I had dinner with him and we talked about acting. And Renoir said to me, which he later repeated in a film, he said that he learned the most important thing about film acting from Michel Simon and Louis Jouvet. He said what they taught me is that the actors mustn't start acting, they must discover the character and they do that by talking and listening to each other and see what emerges. And these films I've never seen so I'm looking forward to see...”

Jack Garfein

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Matías Piñeiro director

“I think that I have to pick this because it's hard not to. It's hard to avoid The Golden Coach and French Cancan and Elena and Her Men, and I especially like The Golden Coach. If you've seen it and you've been through that ending, it's pretty chilling. And I'm guessing that this is not going to be the only Renoir I will be putting here.”

Matías Piñeiro

Philip Kaufman writer

“Once at a screening down in Los Angeles, I came late and I walked into the screening room and I stepped on somebody's toe and I sat down next to him and just as the film was beginning somebody came in front of us and the man next to me said 'Hello Fritz' and Fritz Lang turned around and said 'Hello Jean' and I was sitting next to Jean Renoir with Fritz Lang sitting in front of me. They're great films, inspire me and all of us to get started.”

Philip Kaufman

Renate Reinsve actor

“Renoir, I'll take that one too.”

Renate Reinsve