Total RNA and genomic DNA were extracted from membrane filters prepared as described above (see section Sampling site and sample collection of Materials and methods) using Qiagen RNA/DNA Mini Kit ...

Jean Vigo’s first and only feature-length film, L’Atalante can often be found snuggled amongst critics’ best-of-all-time lists. A quiet, subtle, and brilliantly simple story of a loved-up but immature ...

At the age of 29, Jean Vigo died from rheumatic septicaemia, just a few days after the opening of his only feature film, L'Atalante. Those bare facts are a landmark not just in French cinema, but in ...

The son of anarchists, a sufferer of tuberculosis and a playful movie poet, French filmmaker Jean Vigo died at age 29, mere days after completing his only feature, 1934’s river-bound romance ...

Life bursts forcefully from the screen in French director Jean Vigo’s 1934 film L’Atalante. Often quoted by critics as the apotheosis of film art, it is a fascinating blend of realism and unbounded ...

Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos One stirring short and three ...