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, ...

How many fabrications can one fact-based, fiction-forward movie handle, before the movie falls forward and can’t get up? More than you’d think. A tremendous amount of fabrication, in fact.

Django Reinhardt’s gypsy-infused jazz guitar music swings, remaining frenetic, wild and joyous over 50 years after his death. It carries with it, like Klezmer, a mournfulness that acknowledges misery ...

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 ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Life After Django Reinhardt' tonight? We’ve rounded up ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can pick what works best for you. In the US, ...

Did Belgian-born Gypsy musician Django Reinhardt need to be the most celebrated guitarist of his day to survive a Nazi regime hellbent on eradicating his kind? It’s an intriguing premise, but one only ...

UPDATE with details of the opening-night ceremony: The Berlin Film Festival kicked off tonight with the world premiere screening of Django, French director Etienne Comar’s movie about guitarist and ...

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 ...

STEPHANE GRAPPELLI - A Life in the Jazz Century - A Music on Earth Production. “A Masterpiece" - Just Jazz Guitar “The finest documentary of a musician's life I have ever seen" - Fanfare “If you want ...

Django Reinhardt, the Roma genius, born to Gypsy parents in 1910, is considered by many to be the single most important guitarist in the entire history of jazz. To honor the 100th anniversary of ...