As a cherubic toddler painted by his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir was famous before he was even out of short pants. He would become a famed artist on his own, directing two of the ...

Fifty years after its original release — and a painstaking restoration, “The River” ran again Thursday. After unspooling in Cannes, Jean Renoir’s first color feature, a coming-of-age tale set against ...

I enjoyed Peter Tonguette’s article on Jean Renoir’s 1951 film “The River” (Masterpiece, Sept. 4). When Renoir was in Calcutta to shoot the movie, he was helped in location scouting by a young local ...

There are interviews and essays, including an important and beautifully written one by Satyajit Ray, whose own film-making career was kickstarted by his involvement in the filming of The River. All ...

In 1947, Kenneth McEldowney, a Los Angeles florist and real estate agent, complained to his wife, an MGM publicist, about one of MGM’s films. So she challenged him: Make a better film yourself. He ...

Jean Renoir could get pretty fatuous in his later career, but he strikes the right balance between gravity and lightness in this, his first film in colour and English. The India-set film follows three ...