Structuring Strategies: Claudine Kaufmann
7:00 PM, February 9, 2010
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 7:00 PM
BIJOU AUDITORIUM
STRUCTURING STRATEGIES
FILM EDITOR, RESTORER AND ARCHIVIST CLAUDINE KAUFMANN will introduce two silent films by Jean Renoir restored by a Cinémathèque française, La Fille de l'Eau (1925) & Sur un Air de Charleston (1927) and lecture on film restoration and the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde.
Claudine Kaufmann first worked as a film editor, and, for about ten years, collaborated with filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Melville and François Truffaut.
In 1984, she set up the Film Inventory and Cataloging Section at the Cinémathèque française, and, in 1992, became responsible for the Film Preservation and Restoration.
From 2000 to 2006, she was the Head of the Film Collection Department at the Cinémathèque française. She now works as a free lance film researcher and curator.
Jean Renoir (15 Sept 1894-12 Feb 1979) was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He directed forty films from 1924 to 1970.
"Renoir's films were underestimated when they first came out. They were unconventional, complex, and so energetic and technically daring that few noticed their intricate structure... The generation that came to the cinema in the '60s and '70s (perhaps the richest and most diverse era in European cinema) recognized Renoir as an ancestor who had already made the kind of films they admired or were setting out to make themselves, and justly hailed them as masterpieces. Critic David Thomson recalls: 'The Renoir retrospective at London's National Film Theatre in 1962 amounted to the clearest revelation of the nature of cinema that I have ever had.'"
-James Leahy.
See the entire article on http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/renoir.html
Filmography
Silent era
1924: Une Vie sans joie/Catherine
1925: La Fille de l'Eau/Whirlpool of Fate
1926: Nana
1927: Sur un air de Charleston/Charleston
1927: Marquitta
1928: La Petite marchande d'allumettes/The Little Match Girl
1928: Tire au flanc/The Sad Sack
1928: Le Tournoi dans la cité/The Tournament
1929: Le Bled
The talkies (First French period)
1931: On Purge Bébé
1931: La Chienne/The Bitch
1932: La Nuit du carrefour/Night at the Crossroads
1932: Boudu Sauvé des Eaux/Boudu Saved from Drowning
1933: Chotard et Cie/Chotard and Co
1933: Madame Bovary
1935: Toni
1936: Une Partie de campagne/A Day in the Country
1936: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange/The Crime of Mr. Lange
1936: La Vie est à nous/Life Belongs to Us
1936: Les Bas-fonds/The Lower Depths
1937: La Grande illusion/Grand Illusion
1938: La Marseillaise
1938: La Bête humaine/The Human Beast
1939: La Règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game
American period
1941: Swamp Water
1943: This Land is Mine
1944: Salute to France
1945: The Southerner
1946: The Diary of a Chambermaid
1947: The Woman on the Beach
Second French period
1951: Le Fleuve/The River (shot in India)
1951: Le Carosse d'or/The Golden Coach
1954: French Cancan
1956: Elena et les hommes/Elena and Her Men
1959: Testament du Docteur Cordelier/The Testament of Dr. Cordelier
1959: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe/Picnic on the Grass
1962: Le Caporal épinglé/The Elusive Corporal
1970: Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir/The Little Theater of Jean Renoir
Note: The films will be shown in a DVD of the restored version produced by la Cinémathèque française.
This event has been organized in conjunction with a Jean Renoir retrospective including 19 films organized at the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts from March 12 to April 10 by Ian Birnie.
The retrospective itself is part of Renoir in the 20th Century, an exhibition focusing on the last three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's career, until his death in 1919.
LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA,
90036. For more information visit lacma.org.
CalArts 2010 Festival of French Cinema is a collaboration between CalArts School of Film/Video, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).