Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar. A product of gypsy culture and music, living and working in Paris in the 1930s-40s, he and his group, the Hot Club Quintet, which notably ...

This loose, intermittently compelling biopic of jazz great Django Reinhardt offers a much-deserved spotlight role for French actor Reda Kateb. In Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown,” Sean Penn boasts, ...

Paul Verhoeven, president of the Jury of the 67th International Berlin Film Festival, gestures as he poses for media during a photo call at the 2017 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, ...

This is the second of a series of articles on the recent Berlin international film festival, the Berlinale, held February 9-18, 2017. The first part was posted March 2. Finally, a feature film about ...

The film makes its world premiere on on Thursday, February 9. This past January, the 2017 Berlin Film Festival announced that its opening night film would be the world premiere of Etienne Comar‘s ...

How many fabrications can one fact-based, fiction-forward movie handle, before the movie falls forward and can’t get up? More than you’d think. A tremendous amount of fabrication, in fact.

More than a drama about jazz legend Django Reinhardt, Etienne Comar’s directorial debut, “Django,” is a story about the civic responsibility of artists in troubled political times, which strikes a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - When the Nazis asked Django Reinhardt to play for troops heading to the Eastern Front, the musician faced a moral dilemma relevant to artists today, the director of a biopic on the ...

Django Reinhardt, the Roma genius, born to Gypsy parents in 1910, is considered by many to be the single most important guitarist in the entire history of jazz. To honor the 100th anniversary of ...

The biopic stars Reda Kateb as jazz legend Django Reinhardt. By Scott Roxborough The Berlin International Film Festival will open next month with the world premiere of Etienne Comar’s directorial ...

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