Turner Classic Movies uses an occasional series called “Lost and Found” to showcase vintage movies that have been restored and preserved. Tonight, two of the landmark silent classics directed by the ...

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 ...

Abel Gance’s 1931 film End of the World certainly did represent the “end” of a very important thing: the director’s career as a great cinema pioneer. The original film, lasting more than three hours, ...

An Abel Gance masterpiece brings excitement and clarity to moral confusion. Abel Gance’s 1931 End of the World gets its first Blu-ray DVD release (from KINO) the same time that Public Image Ltd ...

When did a film last blow you away? The pair behind the restoration of an old silent classic about Napoleon say it's a reminder of how magnificent pure cinema can be Napoleon is a silent film directed ...

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 ...

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 ...