Gaumont is throwing a plush screening bash to celebrate the 100 th anniversary of Louis Feuillade’s classic crime pic “Fantomas” on Halloween night at Paris’ Chatelet Theater. The company, which will ...

his long-running New Biographical Dictionary of Film as 'the first great movie experience', the Fantomas films of 1913 and 1914 were based on selections from a series of 32 French pulp- fiction, novel ...

The French filmmaker’s landmark crime serial, “Fantômas” (1913-1914), is coming to Blu-ray (Kino Lorber, $49.95) in what promises to be one of the most exciting releases of 2016. The 4K restoration, ...

In 1913 director Louis Feuillade started working on a series of films based on some popular French pulp novels. Nearly 100 years later the Fantômas films still influences the crime film genre. The ...

“Fantomas,” a reboot of the iconic French crime franchise, has assembled a strong local cast, including Guillaume Canet (“La Belle Époque”), Romain Duris (“The Three Musketeers”), Lyna Khoudri (“The ...

Between 1911 and 1913, a pop phenomenon revolutionised the French publishing world: Fantomas, a series of pulp novels about a terrifying villain who committed spectacular and obscene crimes. A ...

A GIGANTIC figure, wearing the elegant evening clothes of the Belle Époque, steps out of the horizon line and straddles the city of Paris, one foot ready to crush the Louvre. With an air of ennui, he ...

The whirlwind of announcements has begun at the Film Market at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off this morning. Thomas Langmann’s Paris-based production company La Petite Reine unveiled ...