Bei Films in Review wurde ein Artikel von Jean Renoir aus der Print-Ausgabe vom März 1952 online gestellt. Ursprünglich war er in der Cahiers du Cinema erschienen.

What attracts me to film-making is what attracts others to literature or music or any- domain of the arts. I believe more than ever that the cinema is an art and therefore can, among other things, help to depict this collective evolution of mankind.

When I say that the cinema is an art, I admit that it is perhaps an art stained with industrialism and commercialism. But isn’t the same thing true of tapestry, of pottery? Some faience work of Urbino’s, or a Beauvais tapestry, are unquestionably works of art, but they come from a factory. Like a film, their fabrication required the collaboration of authors, technicians, financiers and businessmen. And, after all, the presentation of a play, of a symphony, of frescoes ornamenting a palace, have entailed financial or business deals comparable to those that precede the making of a film.

[via: GreenCine Daily]