L’histoire: Seventy years before Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” captured the imagination of both the public and the critics, the world embraced “Marius,” “Fanny” and ...

For the next two weeks Gene Siskel Film Center presents a new digital restoration of Marcel Pagnol’s beloved “Marseille Trilogy,” three long dramatic features—Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), and César ...

MARCEL PAGNOL. A retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, today through Feb. 28. IN MARSEILLES, THEY CALL IT simply “le film” the classic trilogy “Marius” (1931), “Fanny” (1932) and “Cesar” (1936), ...

A ship sails away on a shimmering ocean at the end of “Marius” (1931), the first film in Marcel Pagnol’s beloved Marseille Trilogy, but the trilogy is firmly rooted in the pleasures and pain of life ...