In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Abel Gance’s 1927 French silent film, also titled Napoleon, is the most famous screen portrayal of the historical figure. It spent five-and-a-half hours ...

It’s a moment immortalized (and cunningly manipulated) in Jacques-Louis David’s monumental painting ... his beloved Josephine), many aspects of Napoleon’s world linger in roads, sewer ...

She turned to her own collaborator, David Crossman, a military costume design expert who focused on Napoleon and the many armies. Together they made thousands of uniforms, hundreds of civilian ...

“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows ...

There are moments in “Napoleon,” Ridley Scott’s eagerly anticipated portrait of the legendary military leader and French emperor, when it looks as if it was conceived by Jacques-Louis David ...

Written by David Scarpa, the lavish period film, which clocks in at a meaty two hours and 38 minutes, stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as the French military commander and later despot Napoleon ...