The work of director Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) is sufficiently celebrated in France to have generated an exhaustive Web site (www.maurice-pialat.net) and two DVD box sets. But his name is far from ...

Irascible, ornery and possibly brilliant Gallic helmer Maurice Pialat was the last Frenchman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, with 1987’s “Under Satan’s Sun.” Docu “Maurice Pialat: L’amour existe” is ...

Maurice Pialat, a prickly but influential French film director, sometime actor and former painter who earned the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or for his 1987 “Under the Sun of Satan” ...

The Museum of the Moving Image has just released a new trailer for its upcoming retrospective for the lifework of French film director Maurice Pialat, which runs October 16 – November 1. The career of ...

Intended or not, the Criterion Channel’s programming of Maurice Pialat and Michael Roemer pairs two auteurs who spoke the same death-riddled language. August’s lineup will bring nine features and one ...

Maurice Pialat, who died last year at age 77, was a Euro-film conundrum—hailed yet reviled, widely distributed yet rarely appreciated, popular yet biliously anti-populist, high-profile yet ...

13/01/2003 - The French director, winner of the Palme d'Or in 1987, dies in Paris at the age of 77, and leaves an important and controversial legacy. Tributes from the French President The death in ...

A commission from French television, the seven-episode miniseries The House in the Woods is one of Maurice Pialat's best-loved works. Set during WWI, the basic plot concerns daily life in a French ...

Here are a few important points to remember about the documentary flick. Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe starring Maurice Pialat, Gérard Depardieu has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 25 min ...

Who would have guessed that Gore Verbinski was such a big Pialat fan? The good folks at The Seventh Art dug up Maurice Pialat’s first film from 1952, entitled Isabelle Aux Dombes. With its disjointed ...