Filmmaker Georges Méliès employed some of his signature special effects techniques to create comedy in "Gugusse and the ...

It’s not every day you get to watch a nearly 130-year-old movie and feel the joy of new discovery. Thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, a movie long-considered the first piece of science fiction ...

The new permanent exhibition installed at the museum of the Cinémathèque française is dedicated to the life and work of Georges Méliès, the magician of cinema. In keeping with their ongoing mission to ...

Méliès was 77 when he wrote his memoirs, which are long out of print A rare autobiography of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès is to be republished after it was tracked down by a filmmaker. Jon Spira ...

Make no mistake about it, Georges Méliès is one of the most influential filmmakers in cinema history. Just a few years after the birth of filmmaking in the 1890s, the French filmmaker began releasing ...

Georges Méliès (December 9, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the ...

The idea of Martin Scorsese directing “Hugo,” a 3D family movie based on an illustrated children’s novel, raised some eyebrows but his eagerness to tackle the story shows the breadth and endurance of ...

Méliès was 77 when he wrote his memoirs, which are long out of print A rare autobiography of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès is to be republished after it was tracked down by a filmmaker. Jon Spira ...

A rare autobiography of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès is to be republished after it was tracked down by a filmmaker. Jon Spira located the memoir from a bookseller in France. It has been out of print ...