The SunBreak » Jean Renoir http://thesunbreak.com Curious Georges in a conversation with Seattle Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:00:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 Renoir and Errol Flynn: Cinema Essentials at the Grand Illusion and Central Cinema http://thesunbreak.com/2011/04/01/renoir-and-errol-flynn-cinema-essentials-at-the-grand-illusion-and-central-cinema/ http://thesunbreak.com/2011/04/01/renoir-and-errol-flynn-cinema-essentials-at-the-grand-illusion-and-central-cinema/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:15:26 +0000 http://thesunbreak.com/?p=870954 The Rules of the Game is one of those rare vaunted Greatest Films in Cinema History that deserves its rep, richly. During its original release, it roused the undisguised contempt of the French upper class for its scalpel-sharp dissection of that strata's lack of conscience. Critics at the time panned it, and the movie's original negative was destroyed entirely during a World War II Allied bombing run (thankfully the movie received a painstaking restoration from surviving prints, to its full length with Renoir's blessing in the late 1950s). But like a lot of misunderstood-at-the-time films, The Rules of the Game plays more resonantly now than ever.

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