Rodama News

A new TV documentary starring historical anthropologist Philippe Charlier  follows the conservation in 2024 of Voltaire's heart,  which ...

An exhibition marking the twentieth anniversary of Sofia Coppola's film "Marie Antoinette" will run at the Trianon estate from...

Surely not another adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses ?!  But yes,  The Seduction  begins on HBO TV on 14th November. 

"Aux armes citoyennes!",  a new documentary by Émilie Valentin and Mathieu Schwartz on the place of women in the French Revolution...

BBC4 is currently repeating the classic 1986 series  Artists and Models , directed by Leslie Megahey, which dramatises the careers of David,...

 The 2023 TV film Olympe, une femme dans la Révolution was broadcast on 3rd March on France 2 and is now available on streaming services, in...

 The second season of the blockbuster TV series  Marie-Antoinette,  written by Deborah Davis, and staring  Emilia Schüle and British actor L...

 French director Helmer Ladj Ly is to write and direct a new film  Dumas: Black  Devil.

 A new film on the end of the French monarchy, "The Flood" ("Le Deluge")  by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, opened th...

An English-language versions of the 2020 French TV documentary Marie-Antoinette, les derniers secrets d'une reine has recently been post...

  A new production of Umberto Giordano’s 1896 opera Andrea Chénier runs at the Royal Opera House from 30th May to 11th June.  I'm not ...

The 2021 film Delicious, directed by Éric Besnard, is now available to rent from various streaming services, with English subtitles.

 There are about 10 trillion reviews of the new Franklin mini-series on Apple - here are a couple of the more informative ones:

 An English version of the 2019 telefilm on Marie-Antoinette's trial, directed by Alain Brunard,  has now been made available on the You...

 Apple TV announces an upcoming historical drama series "Franklin", starring and produced by Michael Douglas.  

 The "Aspects of History" Podcasts / YouTube channel has a new interview with Adam Zamoyski:

 The Sky History [History Channel] website has posted a new article (27th November) on the Paris catacombs with links to various English-lan...

The Catholic Herald  for 14th December publishes an interview with historian Adam Zamoyski. 

Among the dozens of responses to the Ridley Scott Napoleon, here is a noteworthy one from Peter McPhee,  published in The Conversation on 5t...

According to an article published in Variety  on 6th December, French pundits aren't that impressed with Ridley Scott's Napoleon...