After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet.

The Academy Award-winning German-born filmmaker Marcel Ophuls has died at age 97.

When Richard Linklater first started thinking about making a film about the French New Wave, he figured he’d show it all everywhere except one place: France.

Highly influential French film director Jean-Luc Godard has died at age 91.

Italian media say Nino Cerruti, the Italian fashion designer credited with revolutionizing menswear in the 1960s and who gave Giorgio Armani his first fashion break, has died.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

France paid tribute Thursday to screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo whom the French president portrayed as the nation’s Everyman in a solemn, touching national homage that drew applause and tears from fans, stars and the actor’s family.

Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has died.