Robert Israel Articles
Abel Gance's LA ROUE on DVD
"There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso." That's none other than Jean Cocteau, referring to the mammoth 1923 drama (original running time: nearly 8 hours) directed and written by Abel Gance — he of Napoleon. Gance worked for three years on La Roue / The Wheel, which revolves around a locomotive engineer (Séverin-Mars, who died in [...]