autotomy
autotomy The voluntary severance by an animal of a part of its body (commonly one of its own limbs), usually to escape capture by a predator that has seized that part. The part then regrows. Autotomy of the claws occurs in some
Crustacea and of the tail in some
Lacertilia (lizards). It is a defensive mechanism: in some lizards the detached tail continues to wriggle, distracting the predator while the lizard escapes.
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Jean Renoir 3-Disc Collector's Edition.(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Jean Renoir 3-Disc Collector's Edition Including...1962), as well as a documentary, Jean Renoir: An Auteur to Remember (color, 32 mins...Entertainment, www.lionsgate.com. When Jean Renoir died in 1979, Orson Welles called him...
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Jean Renoir
Magazine article from: American Cinematographer; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Jean Renoir Collector's Edition (1925-1962...been as economically realized as it is on Jean Renoir Collector's Edition, an indispensable...wonderful 30-minute documentary, "Jean Renoir: An Auteur to Remember," in which Martin...
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And for Renoir, a rich and varied life. (motion picture director Jean Renoir)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 10/3/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...centenary of the birth of Jean Renoir, the director of two...is also the subject of Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise...the painter Auguste Renoir (already 53 and world-famous when Jean was born), provided...
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Reading Eagle, Pa., Dvd Review column: Jean Renoir three-disc set is dream come true.(Column)
Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA); 5/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...Tony Lucia May 17--DVD: "Jean Renoir 3-Disc Collector's Edition" Director: Jean Renoir Starring: Catherine Hessling...for a time, American) director Jean Renoir. Certain acknowledged classics...
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Jean Renoir's barn dance. (film director)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...season was viewing a nine-minute scene in a film by Jean Renoir, the centenary of whose birth was being widely celebrated...that recalls the paintings of his father, Auguste Renoir. Jean Renoir's essential subject was the nature of life, in...
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Jean Renoir's Restored 1951 Masterpiece ``The River'' to Have U.S. Premiere on Thursday, May 26 in Los Angeles; Special Screening Presented by Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation & In Style Magazine.
Business Wire; 5/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...The newly-restored print of "The River," director Jean Renoir's first color feature and the first color film ever...River,' an extraordinary film by legendary director Jean Renoir that celebrates connections between cultures." Based...
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David Thomson's TOP TEN FILMS: 1 `La Regle du Jeu', Jean Renoir, 1939 - Real light, real places and the dangers of falling in love
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...rely on early success. Jean Renoir felt he had made a war...must be confused. As for Renoir, he was so low he felt...France or the cinema. Jean was the son of the painter...theatre. In the 1930s, Jean Renoir steadily enlarged the...
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Jean Ford v John Renoir. (100 years of film-making)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/10/1994; 700+ words
; ...two of its most acclaimed sons, Jean Renoir and John Ford. Screenings of their...least, the similarities between Renoir and Ford are striking. Both started...people everywhere. True, while Renoir with "La grande illusion" (1937...
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Renoir All Over Again.(new print of Jean Renoir's 'Grand Illusion')
Magazine article from: The Nation; 8/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...this superfluity: A fresh print of Jean Renoir's masterpiece is now making its...against the plastered wall that was Jean Gabin's mug. In short, Grand...With these few quick strokes, Renoir makes you understand you're witnessing...
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From within: music in the style of Jean Renoir.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: CineAction; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Drowning (Boudu Sauve des Eaux, Jean Renoir, 1932), envisioned in mythological...effect that is characteristic of Renoir's style, a style that on occasion...1) Yet the role of music in Renoir's films has generally been underappreciated...
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Jean Renoir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jean Renoir French-born Jean Renoir (1894-1979) directed two of the twentieth century's most...cinematic movements. The son of Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir today seems predestined to become one of film's most...
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Renoir, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
RENOIR, Jean Nationality: French/American. Born...in theatre through 1950s; Compagnie Jean Renoir formed with Anna de Saint Phalle, 1958...Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir (The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir...
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Renoir, Claude
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...December 1914. Family: Son of the actor Pierre Renoir, nephew of the director Jean Renoir. Education: Attended Lycée Lakanal, Paris. Career: General assistant on Jean Renoir's films in early 1930s, then assistant photographer...
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Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...Tate Gallery, London, at Renoir's home at Cagnes (now the Musée Renoir), and elsewhere. One of Renoir's sons was the celebrated film director Jean Renoir, who wrote a lively and touching biography published in 1962 in both French...
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sculpture (e.g., Victorious Venus, Renoir Mus., Cagnes-sur-Mer). Among...18; Philadelphia Mus. of Art). Renoir's work is represented in most of...collections. His son, the film director Jean Renoir , wrote a biography (tr. 1962...
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