Movies: Jacques Champreux

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge agai...

A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France aft...

Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade....

Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aim...

A short documentary about Georges Franju....

Black and white unite and are confronted with hatred in two color-line-busting classics from the classic years of exploitation....

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and the U.S., mixes beautiful clips of rare films with var...

This 8-episode miniseries, like Franju's previous Feuillade homage, Judex, was written by and stars the silent filmmaker's grandson, Jacques Champreux. It was shot in 16mm and 4:3, alongside a theatrical version, Nuits rouge – that in 35mm and 1.66:1...

French-Senegalesian production directed by Jacques Champreux....