17. Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism

MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/21L-011F13
Instructor: David Thorburn
Parallels between French and American cinema, and French contribution to developing film theory and criticism. Survey Renoir's career and some key associates (Vigo, Bazin). Analyze short clips from Grand Illusion and Boudu Saved From Drowning.
00:00 OCW Intro
00:25 French film: a parallel history
05:23 Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
14:48 Poetic Realism
28:31 Visual style as moral realism: Grand Illusion and Boudu Saved from Drowning
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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[@alessandrograssi133]

Loving the cameraman mimicking what Prof. Thorburn is explaining around minute 19:00

[@taylorhumphrey552]

Alessandro Grassi hahahahaha!! Cameraman totally nailed it

[@xiaoyangyue5608]

Haha interesting!

[@shabanahfazal6512]

Ha ha - but did he shake it up and down on either side like he so memorably does with his head and hands? Not mocking - love his passion, expertise and brilliant analysis/ insights, especially when he draws on his expertise in literature and drama. I’ve learned so much from him in all these lectures. Prof Thornburn, if you’re reading this, an immense thank you! A very grateful teacher of literature and film.

[@unclewizard]

This camerawork is absolutely phenomenal and borderline experimental.

[@osmith9212]

Thanks for posting this lecture. Absolutely loved it.

[@beaus2058]

"Camera brings allows the viewer to be apart of the creating of the film" I was anticipating the camerawork after the first two times they mirrored the prof's words. Love it even if I was giggling. Film students really just go beyond the assignment

[@JasperManning]

thanks, it's really invigorating to follow such a dynamic lecturer.

[@Chaogardenx]

Thankyou for the class!

[@berkayklc9775]

Hahahaha camera supports the Professor in addition to scenes of Renoir in the first dimension to create the great applied, "Inception"al, teaching.

[@brianmacneel5992]

17:51 Dude finds his excel sheet more interesting than the Renoir lecture.

[@oliviahancock7492]

Yeehaw, he's talking about the textbook I'm studying out of! God bless the fact that this is on the internet.

[@maryk5375]

props to whoever was filming this lecture and their on-the-spot demonstrations of what the professor is describing 😂😂

[@feinstein1]

Great lecture!

[@dfghj241]

ivan grozny part I and II, from eisenstein, everyone passing by the comment section, plz take a moment of your time and go see these movies i mentioned.

[@natalya6091]

Thanks a bunch.🇷🇺 🇫🇷Great job 🇫🇷Great person

[@iamacat7894]

14:50

[@vikramjitbarua4218]

😂😂Cameraman is a closet Cinematographer🤣🤣

[@adikravets3632]

35:00 I hope everyone in that classroom watched the movie before talking about it. I be fucking pissed if the professor or anyone spoils basically the whole movie before watching it.

[@tommydejosiafilms]

I find it absolutely hilarious that the videographer was literally inspired by the professor's words in real time and was trying to be cinematic. Lol. Unfortunately it doesn't work, because this lecture is about the content, not the pretentiousness of the videographer. Still a great lecture tho!