Francesco “Nino” Castelnuovo, the Italian actor who starred in the Palme D’Or winner “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and the Best Picture Oscar winner “The English Patient,” died on Monday after a long ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

August is Musical Month in Catholic Movie Club! We’re going to look at movie musicals from across the history of the genre to see how these song-and-dance spectaculars can teach us about our faith.

Jacques Demy was trained as a violinist but now spends his time composing movies as themes-and-variations. The repetition of visual patterns in his brilliant Bay of the Angels struck many viewers as ...

Some movies never grow old, and Jacques Demy’s “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” is one of them. Made in 1964, when it won the grand prize at Cannes and became one of the most popular French films of the ...

It has been a big week for beloved musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the 1964 Palme d’Or and went on to international acclaim and five Oscar nominations and ...

Fans of Jacques Demy's 1964 film of the same name will like the new stage musical version, currently playing at London's Gielgud Theatre. By Ray Bennett LONDON – Jacques Demy’s 1964 film The Umbrellas ...

In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, "20-year-old French auto mechanic Guy Fouchier has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic umbrella shop. On the ...

The French director Jacques Demy, who died in 1990, had a passion for American musicals and was determined to transfer the freewheeling aspects of those celebrated MGM musical extravaganzas to a ...

In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, "20-year-old French auto mechanic Guy Fouchier has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic umbrella shop. On the ...