In this interview from 2007, JUDEX cowriter Jacques Champreux recalls collaborating with director Georges Franju on his 1963 film, which was a remake of the 1916 serial of the same name, directed by Champreux’s grandfather Louis Feuillade.

The following interview with actor Francine Bergé, who plays Diana in JUDEX, was recorded in 2012 for the Cinémathèque française in Paris.

The following program, directed by André S. Labarthe, explores the singular work of Georges Franju. Featuring interviews with Franju and clips from some of his better-known films, it was originally broadcast on September 2, 1998, as part of the French television series “Cinéma de notre temps.”

Directed by Georges Franju • 1952 • France

This 1952 short by Georges Franju is a biographical film about the cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès. It features Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son, André, as his father. LE GRAND MÉLIÈS, like Franju’s Louis Feuillade tribute, ...

In this documentary from 1952, Georges Franju turns his camera on the seventeenth-century Paris military complex of the title, which includes a hospital turned museum and a burial site. It is narrated by actor Michel Simon and a museum tour guide and features music by Maurice Jarre and images by ...