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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fans de Marcel Pagnol, plusieurs films cultes de l’écrivain et cinéaste français intègrent le catalogue de Netflix en ce mois ...

The restored trilogy will premiere in New York and Los Angeles this January. “I am not the father of neorealism on screen, you are,” said director Roberto Rossellini to novelist, playwright and ...

You could say that Marcel Pagnol’s movies are defined by the faces he cast, none more distinctive than that of Raimu, a music-hall legend turned big-screen star whom Orson Welles called “the greatest ...

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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 ...