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Marika Takanishi Knowles's monograph focuses on Pierrot’s rise to ubiquity in French culture

A young Robert De Niro worked on his first few films in the '60s, and eventually this was the first one that releases, director Marcel Carné's "Three Rooms in Manhattan," in which a young Bobby was a cafe extra.

When fantasy was a matter of life and death…

The French director, born on 23 February 1924, left behind classic titles such as ‘The Things of Life,’ ‘A Heart in Winter,’ or ‘Nelly and Mr. Arnaud’

Rialto Pictures has just released a 4K restoration of Bernard Tavernier’s 1982 masterpiece, “Coup de Torchon” based on Jim Thompson’s novel “Pop. 1280.

Where the past overtakes you

The legendary film critic Roger Ebert called film “the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. Cinema offers us complete immersion in another reality, taking us on an almost out-of-body experience into someone else’s life and experience.

The most melancholy season of the year is usually associated with nostalgia and melodrama, and the work of directors like Douglas Sirk, John M. Stahl or Marcel Carné is perfect for it

Films can still offer an emotional hit like nothing else. Helen O’Hara and Patrick Smith pick their favourites

The irony of the title of Robert D. Putnam's 2000 book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is that it describes something...