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The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Jean Renoir’s The River demonstrates with intoxicating lyricism the confluence of apparent contraries: past and present, innocence and experience, permanence and change—even Hinduism and Christianity.” Read my review of Jean Renoir’s The River, which played recently as part of Lincoln … Continue reading →

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Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Budd Wilkins

“Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion is a deeply compassionate, never sentimentalized threnody for the European aristocracy rendered obsolete as the dodo bird by WWI’s catastrophic carnage.” Read my full review of Jean Renoir’s masterw0rk, showing in a spanking new 4K transfer at … Continue reading →

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“Stage and Spectacle”: The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1953)

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

Upon returning to Europe after spending WWII as a Hollywood exile, where he had turned out studio product ranging from the sublime (The Southerner) to the not-quite-ridiculous (Woman on the Beach, which suffered more from studio interference, by all accounts, … Continue reading →

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Capsule Reviews: May 9 – 12

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

Lured (Douglas Sirk, 1947) – 2.5/5 Given the fact that glossy melodramas (or, at least, their trappings) were Sirk’s forte, it should come as no surprise that this early noir fails for the most part to achieve, let alone sustain, … Continue reading →

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