One of the questions most often asked of a film critic/buff/fan is that hoary old one about desert island movie choices. It's an impossible one to answer definitively, since one's predilection for ...

Renoir’s film, though, is also a disquisition on the insurmountability of the barriers that divide men of different classes, religions, and ethnicities. National allegiances may count the most in ...

Attention, film buffs: Starting today, Harvard’s Carpenter Center presents Rialto’s restored version of Jean Renoir’s “La Grande Illusion” (1937) for an exclusive nine-day run. Here is a film ...

During the First World War two French air force members, played by Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay, are shot down by German aristocrat Rittmeister von Rauffenstein (Eric von Stroheim). Despite the ...

Famously banned by both the Nazis and the French, Jean Renoir’s humorous, humanist 1937 landmark La Grande Illusion has been spruced up for a 75th birthday re-release. Set in a First World War ...

You remember the scene in “Casablanca” in which Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) ticks off the Nazis by leading a stirring rendition of “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem. That scene was copied ...

La Grande Illusion: Special Edition (Optimum, €24.99) is a digitally restored uncut version of Jean Renoir’s 1937 classic. La Grande Illusion: Special Edition (Optimum, €24.99) is a digitally restored ...

This film ranked #15 in Time Out's list of the 100 greatest French films. Click here to see the full list. As relevant as ever, Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece, ‘La Grande Illusion’, is a film about ...

Anne McElvoy presents a Landmark edition examining Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion. Is this 1937 French war film one of the greatest ever made? Show more Anne McElvoy presents a landmark edition on ...

Directed by Jean Renoir. Starring Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot Club, QFT, Belfast, 114 min JEAN RENOIR, one of the very greatest film ...

Restored and as relevant as ever, Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece, ‘La Grande Illusion’, is a film about common values and decency – the ability in all of us to act with respect and warmth towards ...