by Sean Axmaker | Jun 28, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
La Chienne (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second sound film by Jean Renoir, is arguably his first masterpiece and it shows Renoir already using sound both subtly and creatively back in 1931. Adapted from a novel by Georges de La Fouchardière, it stars Michel Simon as...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 15, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A Day in the Country (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – Jean Renoir has long been called the cinematic successor to the French Impressionists—he is, after all, the son of Auguste Renoir, and his generosity and humanism and interest in the lives of working class folks is in...
