The Back Row Manifesto’s Incredibly Personal, Completely Subjective List of the Best Films of The Decade (2000-2009) will be unveiled over the course of the month of December. Think of it as a sort of ...

French Foreign Legionnaires work out under the glare of the hot East African desert sun. Their sinewy bodies are a choreography of muscular movement as they exercise and perform their drills. They go ...

"Careful what you're saying. Backstabbing isn't in the Legion's honor code." Janus Films has revealed a new re-release trailer for an acclaimed French drama titled Beau Travail, one of the early films ...

One of the Belcourt’s virtual offerings — opening Sept. 4 — is a new 4K restoration of Claire Denis’ 1999 film Beau Travail. It’s an exquisite ballet of flesh and fury that takes the foundation of ...

The September 2020 lineup of The Criterion Collection has been unveiled, and it’s a packed one. Leading the list is Claire Denis’s masterpiece Beau travail, which has finally received a new 4K digital ...

Scaling back narrative and dialogue alike – story elucidation relies mainly on intermittent retrospective voice-over narration – Beau Travail engages the viewer instead with its sensual elements (“A ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Last weekend saw a slew of awards shows, with SAGs, the PGAs and the Spirit Awards all ...

Actor Gregoire Colin (left) with Denis Lavant in a scene from 'Beau Travail,' which will screen at the Texas Theatre drive-in.(New Yorker Films / No credit given) ‘Pleasure Style Attitude” — a film ...

Instead of a sailing ship, we have a remote military outpost in Djibouti. Instead of a Christ figure crucified by a hate-filled brute (as in the 1962 Billy Budd starring a very young Terence Stamp), ...