Jay Liu is a writer and critic of film and culture hailing from the embattled city of Hong Kong. He was chosen twice to lead the official Cannes Classics x USC School of Cinematic Arts partnership, ...

Jean Renoir’s 1937 film, “Grand Illusion,” (a new restoration of which settles in today at Film Forum for a two-week run; the film is also readily available on DVD), is one of the very greatest of war ...

The story may have been set in World War I, but it was the spector of fascism that loomed over Renoir’s masterpiece. Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim. Director: Jean ...

A few weeks ago, I had the chance to see Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve in a movie theater in San Francisco. Over the years I must have seen and loved it seven or eight times. This screening did not ...

Sometimes I’m asked why I almost never give a film a grade of ‘A,’ and I reply that to do so is to declare a movie an immortal classic on a par with "Casablanca" or "The Godfather" : works of ...

Jean Renoir’s 1937”Grand Illusion,” one of the most admired — and one of the most feared — films ever made, returns to theatrical screens in a fine digital restoration taken from the original camera ...

LONDON — Pop quiz: Before “The Artist,” what was the last film by a French director to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards? The answer: Jean Renoir‘s “The Grand Illusion,” way back in ...

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 ...

The curtain rises: After spending a disappointing exile in Hollywood during World War II, the great French director Jean Renoir of “Grand Illusion” and “The Rules of the Game” fame returned home.

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 ...