The Best Director, Ever | The New York Observer

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Shorts, 5/29.
Published 5/29/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"[I]f I want to remind myself that the movies are capable of achieving a level of transcendence comparable to a painting by Rembrandt or Turner, or to a symphony by Mozart, I run a film by Renoir," writes Peter Bogdanovich in the New York Observer. And of course, he's got stories to tell: Extremely taken with Boudu Saved From Drowning - the ironic and satirical saga of a bum floating down a river whom a middle-class family "saves" - I went right over to the Renoirs' beautiful Beverly Hills ...

Thoughts on Jean Renoir
Published 6/2/2008 by Rick at Coosa Creek Cinema
... Peter Bogdanovich has a great appreciation for Jean Renoir over at the New York Observer. He regards Renoir as “The Best Director, Ever,” and who am I to argue? He writes: ...

The Art of the Tracking Shot: Boudu Saved from Drowning
Published 6/29/2008 by Rick at Coosa Creek Cinema
... Those who’ve read this blog before (and you know who you are!) will know that I’ve made a case for Jean Renoir being perhaps the greatest director of all time. As Peter Bogdanovich has noted, during the 1930s he made a virtually unprecedented string of masterpieces, including Grand Illusion, La Bête Humaine and The Rules of the Game. ...