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David Thompson's beguiling documentary on Renoir's life and work, made for the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Born 100 years ago, Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is considered by many the greatest of film directors. Omnibus presents a two-part investigation of Renoir's life and career, coinciding with a short season of his films on BBC2.
The son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean's career began in the silent era but his most acclaimed films date from the 1930s. His films are said to reflect his father's love of nature and deep humanity, and have long been an inspiration to other directors as well as audiences.

One of the most important French films of the 1970s, Jean Eustache's marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair.

Jean Genet set an example for other self-performers like James Dean, Joe Orton and Andy Warhol to follow. His real life, like those of his successors, emerging as by far the most compelling work of art he produced. Like those other iconic artists, Jean Genet is Jean Genet's consummate creation, and finding the boundary between the day-to-day realities of life and his creative existence is a bit like exploring a Mobius Strip.

In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, a teenage brother and sister create an intense, private world in their untidy shared single room. The intrusion of outsiders provokes tragedy. A hauntingly atmospheric film of Jean Cocteau's claustrophobic hothouse novel, for which he also wrote the screenplay. To his second film Melville contributed clear-eyed direction, the then-novel use of classical music for the score and the inspired casting of Renée Cosima in a dual role and from Nicole Stéphane Melville extracted an intense performance as the fiercely watchful sister. bfi.org.uk

In 1972, newly radicalized Hollywood star Jane Fonda joined forces with cinematic innovator Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin in an unholy artistic alliance that resulted in Tout va bien (Everything's All Right). This free-ranging assault on consumer capitalism and the establishment left tells the story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory as witnessed by an American reporter (Jane Fonda) and her has-been New Wave film director husband (Yves Montand). This is a masterpiece of radical cinema, a caustic critique of society, marriage, and revolution in post-1968 France. (-DVD cover)

Lionsgate proudly releases the Jean Renoir Collector’s Edition Box Set featuring seven films from one of the greatest geniuses of the French cinema. The collection includes completely re-mastered classics such as four of Renoir’s earliest movies – La Fille de l’eau, Nana, Sur un air de Charleston and La Petite marchande d’allumettes – a release from his political period – La Marseillaise – and two of his last movies – Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier and Le Caporal Epingle. The set also includes the documentary “Jean Renoir: An Auteur to Remember.” This documentary, created specifically for this box set, features…..

In a palace of Paris, two detectives are investigating a two-years-old murder while an unhappily married couple tries to collect a debt from a boxing manager who has ties to the mob. The basic structure of Detective is that there are several groups of people staying in one hotel working on various sides of the law towards disparate goals that end up crossing over one another.