When Louis Feuillade’s “Les Vampires” premiered in 1915, escalating the war of attrition between French film companies Pathe and Gaumont — in the middle of the actual armed conflict of World War I — ...

Irma Vep is a reboot, remake, sequel, and update of creator Olivier Assayas' cult 1996 arthouse movie about movies. The original movie was about Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung, playing a fictional ...

Irma Vep (1996) is a French movie helmed by Olivier Assayas. It stars Maggie Cheung as a fictionalized version of herself, a Hong Kong actress cast in the remake of a silent film serial. As she dives ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

The anxiety around the state of cinema that Olivier Assayas captured in his 1996 international breakthrough, Irma Vep, has proved remarkably enduring. The French auteur uses the setting, a troubled ...

Assayas reimagined his 1996 film for an HBO and A24-produced limited series starring Alicia Vikander. Why? Well, Assayas saw the need to update the meta message of fame, mirrored celebrity, and even ...

If you’ve been paying attention to the press coverage of the trendy new HBO series Irma Vep, you’ve undoubtedly encountered references to its purported “meta” qualities. This designation rests on the ...

French filmmaker Oliver Assayas’ “Irma Vep,” a streaming series adaptation of his own movie adaptation of a silent serial, has become a stealthy summer treat, and the finale, premiering Monday on HBO ...