Filmed as war raged across Europe, Children of Paradise is a masterpiece: a nostalgic love letter to Paris, the theatre and the spirit of resistance.

Now it’s a film with new dialogue spoken by children of the original cast. By Eric Grode The French film industry was hardly the only force spurring the barricades, Molotov cocktails and worker ...

That celebration was infused with a very French idea about citizens’ moral obligation to support the arts and to do so somewhere other than at home. The Institut Lumière, a film society based ...