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 ...

The best thing about Don Malcolm’s annual The French Had a Name for It noir festival at the Roxie Theater is that most of the selections are not available on home video, shown on Turner Classic Movies ...

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 ...

Born 20 miles north of Paris and christened Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, Gabin initially refused to follow his parents and walk the boards in blue-collar cafés and third-rate music halls. But after several ...

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

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...