He was the favorite in Marlene Dietrich's long string of passionate lovers, an actor who so embodied the qualities prized by his native Frenchmen that in an end-of-millennium opinion poll he was voted ...

A sublimely melancholy story of alienation and doomed love starring Jean Gabin at his greatest and the revelatory Michèle Morgan (who at 17 was exactly half his age), it was the third collaboration ...

The most notable French actor of his day, Jean Gabin (1904-1976), is well known for his many film roles, and the multitude of actresses that he romanced, most famously Marlene Dietrich, but his ...

Jean Gabin took his first steps in cinema in the 1930s and quickly rose to fame thanks to his striking naturalness. Having become a star, he made his mark in the most famous French films, first by ...

It’s hard not to think of Marcel Carne’s “Quai des Brumes” (“Port of Shadows”), newly available on DVD, in tandem with its more accomplished companion piece, “Le Jour se leve” (“Daybreak”). “Quai” ...

Jean Gabin is as rugged and worldly as ever in this sparkling reissue of Marcel Carné’s classic Marcel Carné’s 1939 classic, written by Jacques Prévert, is bristling with energy and shaped with ...

Now that the holiday season is over, it’s time to think of buying something for yourself, and two recent film books will be hard for cinephiles to resist. “Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France” by ...

The subversive humour and razor-sharp dialogue of the crime comedies Georges Lautner directed in the 1960s was often lost in translation, but in his native France they enjoyed a popularity comparable ...

The twisted history of one of Thailand’s most generous and eclectic cultural institutions ...