It’s not quite Tab Hunter’s fantasy arthouse drive-in in Polyester, advertising “Dusk to Dawn: Three Marguerite Duras Hits,” but Anthology Film Archives’ seven-feature-plus-shorts retro is the best ...

bastards born when the French New Wave and the nouveau roman swapped precious fluids, the films of novelist Marguerite Duras are beautiful, monstrous sleepwalkers, creeping through modern emptinesses ...

The unhappy Hollywood experiences of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner have led to the perception that the literary and cinematic worlds are somehow incompatible. To the contrary, ...

25 years ago Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81 At the evocation of this name one spontaneously thinks of the intellectual superstar Duras adulated or hated with her big glasses and ...

“I make films to fill my time,” Marguerite Duras wrote in 1975. “If I had the strength to do nothing, I would do nothing.” Indeed, Duras had a hard time being unproductive. She penned 30 novels and ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A ...