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The Cutting Room is a quarterly, 40-page newsletter which takes a new look at the world of film.

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INSIDE THE LAUNCH ISSUE OF THE CUTTING ROOM, Volume 1, Number 1

US RELEASES:    Jim Lane gives his inimitable slant on his choice of the most important films

WHY I LOVE:    Gary McKeone's personal love letter to Cinema Paradiso

INS AND OUTS:    The inside story of the revolving-door casting of the political conspiracy thriller, State of Play.

FESTIVAL NEWS:      Atom Egoyan on why the Toronto Festival is so special

WHEN TWO GIANTS MEET:    Robert de Niro and Al Pacino, despite sharing 120 years of Hollywood history, can do little more than "butt heads" in Righteous Kill

DVD CHOICE:    Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Guo - Cina

ONE TO WATCH:     Manoel de Oliveira - at 100, the world's oldest working film director

GENRES:     Luis Alberto de Cuenca - one of Spain's leading poets - gives us his very personal take on why he loves Spanish horror films and their principal practitioners

IN THE SPOTLIGHT:    Michael Caine

OBITUARIES:    The significance of Cuba's Humberto Solás

BOOK REVIEW:     David Thomson's mouth-watering Have You Seen ...?

THE CUTTING ROOM INTERVIEW: An in-depth interview with Alain Renoir, son of the great French film director, Jean Renoir, and grandson of the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Alain, who worked as assistant cameraman on his father's classic 1939 movie, La Règle du Jeu, sadly died in December 2007 but his conversation with The Cutting Room's Editor, Adam Feinstein, earlier that year threw up many illuminating insights.

Professor Alain Renoir, the son - and some-time collaborator - of the great French film director, Jean Renoir, and grandson of the French painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died in California on December 12, 2008. He had lived a full life. His mother was Catherine Hessling (real name: Andrée Madeleine Heuchtling, also known as Dédée), one of his grandfather’s models who went on to star in many of Jean Renoir’s early silent films, including La Fille de L’Eau (1925) and Nana (1926). However, Alain was brought up by his father’s live-in companion, Dido Freire, whom Jean had met after separating from both Hessling and his next lover, Marguerite. After his film work, Alain Renoir became professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was held in high esteem and affection by his students. He lived out his retirement with his wife, Patricia, in Esparto, near the Californian capital, Sacramento. ADAM FEINSTEIN, Editor of The Cutting Room, was privileged to have been able to talk to Alain Renoir at some length last year about his childhood, his work on such classics as La Bête Humaine and La Règle du Jeu (the latter film celebrating its seventieth birthday this year) and to share Alain’s memories of his father. In a tribute to a delightful man, we publish extracts from Feinstein’s wide-ranging conversation with Alain Renoir.

BITS AND PIECES: Prize competition ... Did you know ...? Joke corner

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