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As his autobiographical "Fashion Freak Show" rolls into Milan and Barcelona, Jean Paul Gaultier reflects on an extraordinary, formula-free career.

Including the works of directors like John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Robert Altman and more, Hirokazu Koreeda names the 10 greatest films of all time.

The film that asks us to close our eyes. The director who asked us not to reveal his secrets. What are you watching this weekend?

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Cine y Moda looks at fashion’s relationship with film, from Brando’s The Wild One to Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange

Abel is a convicted killer on the lam from the French, who has lived in Italy long enough to acquire a wife and two sons. He loves his family more than crime. He thinks it is time to return to France. One last job should do it. If he went to more movies, he'd know that calling it your "last job" seems to put the jinx in.

She loves him. "Je t'aime, je t'aime," she repeats into the telephone, in the desperate closeup that opens Louis Malle's "Elevator to the Gallows" (1958). He needs to know this, because he is going to commit a murder for them. The woman is Jeanne Moreau, in her first role, [sic—Ed.] looking bruised by the pain of love. She plays Florence, wife of the millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala (Jean Wall). Her lover, Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet), is a paratrooper w...

The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment events includes Taylor Iman Jones in Napa, Ashley Longshore exhibit in San Francisco and more.

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Having achieved pretty much everything there was to achieve in the fashion world, Jean Paul Gaultier is opening himself up to new horizons since retiring from t