One of the most ambitious films in cinema history, Abel Gance’s epic six-hour long Napoléon
is both a stunningly visual work of cinema and a poetically beautiful telling of the life
of France’s most... [More...]
Abel Gance’s remake of his earlier 1919 film displays all the passion and power of that
earlier film, but with the addition of sound to articulate the director’s protest against
war... [More...]
Whatever artistic genius Abel Gance was able to call upon in the early years of his film
making career had all but dissipated by the time he came to make this run-of-the-mill
pseudo-historical... [More...]
Over forty years after making his landmark epic Napoléon
, Abel Gance returns to the life of France’s most famous general in this
lavish production which focuses on one comparatively short but decisive point... [More...]
