This past January, the 2017 Berlin Film Festival announced that its opening night film would be the world premiere of Etienne Comar‘s “Django,” about famous French jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and ...

This is the second of a series of articles on the recent Berlin international film festival, the Berlinale, held February 9-18, 2017. The first part was posted March 2. Finally, a feature film about ...

A bar fight breaks out during a pivotal scene in Django, the musically crisp yet mournful new wartime drama by Étienne Comar. As the fracas unfolds, the band keeps playing, with a blithe bemusement ...

In Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown,” Sean Penn boasts, “I’m considered the best guitar player maybe that ever lived, certainly in this country. There’s this gypsy in France, and he’s the most ...

With a little more than a month to go before kickoff, the Berlin Film Festival has unveiled Etienne Comar’s Django as its opening movie. A world premiere, it will also run in competition. Comar, a ...

Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar. A product of gypsy culture and music, living and working in Paris in the 1930s-40s, he and his group, the Hot Club Quintet, which notably ...

Les organisateurs du festival Django Reinhardt le qualifient de « Woodstock version manouche ». Ses participants, eux, préfèrent parler de « programmation off ». Durant toute cette fin de semaine, et ...

THE Berlinale often makes a point of confronting Germany’s past, as well as addressing today’s political issues. Both boxes are ticked by this year’s opening film, “Django”, a handsome drama about the ...

This loose, intermittently compelling biopic of jazz great Django Reinhardt offers a much-deserved spotlight role for French actor Reda Kateb. In Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown,” Sean Penn boasts, ...