So it’s fitting that Olivier Assayas, in a fresh spin on his 1996 film “Irma Vep,” uses a new version of a similar story to soak in all the disparate elements that have to come together in ...

Assayas’ new Irma Vep, in which the director character is now adapting Les Vampires as a TV series having previously made it as an artsy feature, is an entertainment industry satire, but it’s ...

By Natalia Winkelman In this new HBO series by Olivier Assayas, a continuation of his self-referential cult film from 1996, past and present are inextricably intertwined. By Elisabeth Vincentelli ...

“World cinema” can be a murky category, but it aptly describes the films of French director Olivier Assayas, whose narratives flow effortlessly across borders of geography and languag ...

Part of what has made French filmmaker Olivier Assayas among the most reliably consistent on the international scene is his knack for reinvention. His work continually engages the world in fresh ...

You are now in French territory.' That is the last bit of dialogue uttered in “Carlos,” Olivier Assayas’s new film. The words are addressed to the protagonist — the Venezuelan-born ...

Assayas wrote the screenplay, which is based on Fernando Morais’ book, “The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five,” published by Companhia das Letras. Assayas ...

A still from director Olivier Assayas' film "Wasp Network." (Courtesy Netflix) As in “Carlos,” Edgar Ramírez once again takes center stage playing a slippery real-life figure, this time as ...

At first glance, Non-Fiction (which opens this weekend at the Music Box) might appear to be a minor effort from French writer-director Olivier Assayas. The film is dialogue-driven, as opposed to ...

Toward the end of the story, while working on a film set, Gilles walks behind a movie screen, a symbolic representation of Assayas walking into his future as a filmmaker. It’s not quite Stephen ...

Assayas has been upfront about the autobiographical nature of the project – he, like Gilles, was involved in leftist politics as a teen, and like Gilles, was the son of a TV screenwriter father ...