I was extremely lucky to see one of the most elusive great films — Abel Gance’s stunning “Napoleon” (1927) — for the first time Friday at a press screening held by the San Francisco Silent Film ...

The legendary French leader is a regular in movies — Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix offer their Napoleon biopic on Nov. 22 — but the first, made by Gance in 1927, was a filmmaking breakthrough. By ...

Netflix continues to forge ties with every film industry in the world, including France. This week, the streamer announced it would be financing a new restoration of Abel Gance's 1927 silent epic ...

When it comes to summer blockbusters, it doesn’t get much more epic than a film that first premiered nearly a century ago. For nearly two decades work has been underway to restore Abel Gance’s 1927 ...

To mark Bastille Day, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will screen Abel Gance’s legendary 1927 epic “Napoleon,” which has rarely been shown publicly since its 1981 restoration by film historian ...

There have been a lot of films about Napoleon, but the most famous one of all is also the hardest to see. Abel Gance's Napoleon premiered 85 years ago, a silent epic about the childhood and early ...

Although worthwhile restorations are unveiled on a semi-regular basis, some — such as Out 1, perhaps the greatest thing cinema offered last year — are in a league of their own. The most recent case in ...

A film editor works on the reconstruction of the Apollo version of the movie Napoleon (1927) by French director Abel Gance in the buildings of the Cinematheque Francaise at the Fort-de-Saint-Cyr in ...

In its ambition, scale and success, there is nothing else in silent cinema like Abel Gance's "Napoleon." A film of grand emotion and astonishing technical sophistication, it uses split-screen ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Like the great man himself, returning in triumph from exile in Elba, the ...