A survey of the careers of two of cinema's greatest and most admired directors: Jean Renoir and Luis Bu?uel. Both these directors had long careers, stretching from the late silent era into the 1970s, and both worked in various countries--France, Spain, the U.S., Mexico, India--taking in new situations and ways of life while maintaining their own attitude, philosophy of life, and artistic vision. The class will view and analyze such great films as Renoir's Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game, and The River and Bu?uel's L'Age d'Or, The Exterminating Angel, and Belle de Jour.