The 2024 Cannes Classics sidebar will open with a restored version of French filmmaker Abel Gance’s silent epic Napolean. A major work of the silent era, Napolean has taken sixteen years to restore.

Official synopsis via Cannes as a proper introduction: "From his beginnings at the Ecole Militaire de Brienne (1783) to the start of the Italian Campaign (1796), Napoleon vu par Abel Gance is ...

The 77th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with a historic screening of Abel Gance’s restored 1927 masterpiece “Napoleon”, months after French critics heaped scorn on Ridley Scott’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The BFI (British Film Institute) has announced a digitally restored re-release of Abel Gance's 1920's epic Napoleon, about the French conqueror. This project has been in the works for 50 years, ...

Never mind about 3-D and IMAX and higher frame rates and immersive design and “The Artist” and “Hugo”: Abel Gance’s monumental silent, “Napoleon” (1927), is back and fully restored ...

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.

Pese a ser una figura histórica célebre, Napoleón ha tenido apariciones fugaces en el cine desde la película muda de Abel Gance de 1927.Stanley Kubrick imaginaba una gran epopeya de Napoleón ...