The Woman on the Beach 1947
*contains spoilers When Jean Renoir’s first movie in America, Swamp Water, was made at 20th Century Fox, Renoir was told off in memos during production by studio head Daryl F Zanuck (1902-79 pneumonia). He accused the director of using too many dolly shots and taking alternate takes of the same scene. He was worrying too…
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*contains spoilers As many will already know, Orson Welles’ movie The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) was taken out of his hands by RKO studios and over an hour was hacked from it. What remains is still regarded a masterpiece. The same type of thing happened with Jean Renoir’s (1894-1979 heart attack) last American movie The Woman…
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