Fantômas is the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the arch-criminal anti-hero of a series of 32 pre-WWI French thrillers written by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. He carries out the most ...

Fantômas begins as many a good tale begins: with listeners crowding around a fire. In this case, guests of the venerable Marquise surround a retired magistrate who ...

Since Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre first introduced the character in 1911 in a series of novels, French pop culture has seen many iterations — some truer to the original than others — of ...

André Hunebelle/Gaumont In the late 1960s, Soviet people, still deprived of Hollywood blockbusters, adored the French action comedy films mocking the Bond saga. But some people took it to a whole ...

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Wassim Beji, the French producer of “Boite noire,” and SND have acquired the adaptation rights to iconic French detective novels “Fantomas” and are planning a film and a series based on the franchise.

Between 1911 and 1913, a pop phenomenon revolutionised the French publishing world: Fantomas, a series of pulp novels about a terrifying villain who committed spectacular and obscene crimes. A ...

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British guitarist James Blackshaw's latest release is a seamless 74-minute piece stemmed from a commission for a live score for the 1914 silent movie Le Faux Magistrat. It's his most audacious attempt ...