Georges Franju was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine. Before working in French cinema, Franju had several different jobs. Franju was also briefly in the military in Algeria ...

The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on ...

With French director Georges' Franju's horror masterpiece Eyes Without A Face being screened at the BFI tomorrow night, Michael Wojtas explains why his films deserve to be seen as classics Yet as ...

Once seen, never forgotten, “Eyes Without a Face” is a film to haunt your dreams. Disturbing, disorienting, quietly terrifying, it’s one of the least known of the world’s great horror movies and, in ...

Georges Franju’ SPOTLIGHT ON A MURDERER (Pleins feux sur l’assassin – 1961) will be available on Blu-ray May 30th from Arrow Academy. When the terminally ill Count Herve de Kerloquen (Pierre Brasseur, ...

“He’s changed since his daughter vanished. He says such strange things,” says a woman attending the lecture of Dr. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur). And she’s right. The physician simply hasn’t been the ...

MADRID — The 60th San Sebastian Film Festival is to honor Gallic helmer Georges Franju. Franju, who was born in 1912, was heavily influenced by the surrealist movement, as were many of his generation ...

The San Sebastian International Film Festival is set to honor filmmaker Georges Franju with a comprehensive retrospective, which will coincide with the year of his 100th birthday. The influential ...