Marius is a beautiful, vibrant film, directed by Alexander Korda from a script by Marcel Pagnol, featuring three characters whose intertwined lives and fortunes comprise Pagnol's epochal Marseilles ...

For the next two weeks Gene Siskel Film Center presents a new digital restoration of Marcel Pagnol’s beloved “Marseille Trilogy,” three long dramatic features—Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), and César ...

Like many novice American filmmakers at the advent of sound (i.e., “talking”) pictures, Marcel Pagnol (“Manon des Sources”) was plucked from the Paris theater scene, where he was a prolific playwright ...

L’histoire: Seventy years before Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” captured the imagination of both the public and the critics, the world embraced “Marius,” “Fanny” and ...

Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for decades. Multiple remakes, including ...

Behold the multiple paradoxes of Marcel Pagnol. Once upon a time he was France’s most celebrated filmmaker, the first of his craft to be selected to the lofty Academie Francaise. His best-known works ...

In collaboration with the University Film Foundation, the French Talking Films Committee will present the third picture of the winter when "Marius" by Marel Pagnol will be shown Friday and Saturday at ...

Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for decades. Multiple remakes, including ...

In the conclusion of the Marseilles Trilogy, writer Marcel Pagnol assumes the directorial reins to wrap up the story of the family of dockside bar proprietor Cesar, his son Marius, Marius' true love ...

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Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for decades. Multiple remakes, including ...