Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the toilet, nor was the company that bore his moniker the source for the name of a bodily function. And while John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, will forever be ...

There are eight “great themes” for westerns, according to Critics Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout and Andre Bazin. whose book, Le Western, ou le Cinema Americain par Excellence, is the most exhaustive of the ...

Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in the birthplace of cinema. Le Louxor opened in Paris's 10th arrondissement in ...

"This extraordinary return to the origins of cinema also shows that the journey never stopped and the adventure continues. Cinema began here the same as we will always know it." Janus Films has ...

As a kid, Marie Louise Khondji spent a lot of time on film sets with her father, renowned Iranian-French cinematographer Darius Khondji, meeting directors like Roman Polanski and, on one harrowing ...

For a decade, with a mandated pandemic break, the distinctive small but substantial French Wave Film Festival has served as a midsummer treat for art cinema fans. Consider it a mid-season mini-feast ...

Directed by Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes chief, the movie argues that filmmaking is an act of faith in humanity. A scene from “Lumière, le Cinéma!,” directed by Thierry Frémaux. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Transplanting features of US film noir to Paris, with added brutality, the 1962 film shocked in its time – and has inspired Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, among others, writes Adam Scovell ...

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