I was 20 in 1995 when my father, the filmmaker Louis Malle, died.
Just as I was beginning to fall in love with a boy in my class and
escape from the influence of my father, he began to show the first
symptoms of the illness that would take him from me. I was
overwhelmed, as much by the shock of the news of my father's illness as
by the certainty that I was the cause of it through my desire for
independence...
In the 1910s, French cinema led the way with a new industry which actively encouraged innovation. From the serials of Louis Feuillade to the first auteur pieces of Abel Gance, this decade is rich in cinematic marvels.
Since the 1920s, Hollywood has dominated the film industry, but that doesn't mean American cinema is all bad - America has produced so many great films that you could never watch them all in one lifetime.
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.