The latest news and comment on film director Jean-Jacques Annaud
July 2022
Notre-Dame on Fire review – a pulpy take on a real-life catastrophe
The 2019 fire that tore through Paris’s great cathedral gets the disaster movie treatment
Notre Dame on Fire review – high adventure ripped straight from the headlines
Veteran director Jean-Jacques Annaud rips a swashbuckling escapade from news footage of the catastrophic fire at the Paris cathedral
‘Fire is the perfect villain’ – how the Notre Dame blaze became an explosive film
Name of the Rose director Jean-Jacques Annaud has turned the Paris fire into a thrilling drama. He talks about the desperate race to rescue the crown of thorns – as molten lead fell like satanic rain
May 2018
Antony Beevor: the greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear
He groaned at Valkyrie and despaired at Saving Private Ryan. The award-winning historian takes aim at the war films that make him furious – and reveals his own favourite
September 2015
China enters Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Wolf Totem into Oscars 2016 race
Following its 2015 choice, Philippe Muyl’s The Nightingale, China has once again entered a film by a French director for best foreign language film
May 2013
Jean-Jacques Annaud: 'People who make films are in danger every day'
The director on the joy of China, his affinity with Inner Mongolian wolves, and why embracing their bestiality might help keep people from therapy
February 2012
Black Gold – review
Jean-Jacques Annaud's Arabian frights
August 2009
Wolf-training follows tigers and bears for director Jean-Jacques Annaud
French director to spend 18 months training wolves for film adaptation of Chinese bestseller Wolf Totem
October 2008
Reel history
Enemy at the Gates: Stalingrad with cockney accents
Alex von Tunzelmann
Jean-Jacques Annaud risks more controversy with Kashmir
