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As part of a plan to distribute value-added live content to cinemas around the country as a whole, south of France-based VEO Cinémas has selected media and cont...

An event like the Festival Lumière, with its wide remit that sees classic films and...

A dispatch on three films from the New York Film Festival, including the debut of Panah Panahi.

Jean-Pierre Leaud in The 400 Blows and The Death of Louis the XIV A double bill of sorts on Jean-Pierre Leaud on Mubi is just the excuse we need to re-examine the career of the legendary French actor. The streaming platform is showing Leaud’s breakthrough The 400 Blows as well as his most recent movie, The Death of Louis the XIV. Also on Mubi is another rarely screened title, The Rise and Fall of A Small Film Company. From the youthful exuberance of his earlier performances to the graceful late-life reckoning of ageing, ailments and the inexorable advent of mortality, Leaud has d...

(The article continues below - Commercial information) Where Haneke had two high-end French thesps (Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) to enact his passion play, Noé’s casting choices give a greater sense of naturalism and the quotidian. The suffering couple, whose actual names aren’t specified, are Dario Argento, the Giallo master little known for his on-screen acting; and Françoise Lebrun, famously a non-professional when she was cast in her lover Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore. Noé also, intelligently and originally, doesn’t attempt to evoke his actors’ f...