Author: Dudley Andrew

Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors ...

André Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly esta...

The story of Paris in the 1930s seems straightforward enough, with the Popular Front movement leading toward the inspiring 1936 election of a lefti...

Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sanshô Dayû (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by...

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplan...