The first clue that “The Mystery of Irma Vep” won’t be just any other night at the theater: an insert in the program encourages audiences to: Stamp their feet every time they hear the word ...

Diversionary Theatre is avoiding the obvious holiday classics to stage something that brings a different kind of joy: Charles Ludlam’s 1984 play "The Mystery of Irma Vep." The various ...

The anxiety around the state of cinema that Olivier Assayas captured in his 1996 international breakthrough, Irma Vep, has proved remarkably enduring. The French auteur uses the setting ...

The ghost of Irma Vep continues to haunt filmmaker Olivier Assayas even after more than a century’s worth of distance between them. Though his latest series is a remake of his 1996 film of the ...

Fans of Wordle or Countdown might enjoy American-French miniseries Irma Vep because it's full of hidden anagrams. The title is an anagram of “vampire”. Its heroine’s name is Mira ...

Olivier Assayas’s remake of his 1996 film is at its best when exposing the behind-the-scenes madness of a shoot Alicia Vikander as Mira in ‘Irma Vep’ Irma Vep review — Alicia Vikander ...

In the 1996 film Irma Vep, a fading French auteur loses his sanity trying to remake the silent-era classic Les Vampires. “It’s been done, why do it again? It’s a trap,” sighs an ...

Alicia Vikander as the iconic French character Irma Vep in Neon's new series Irma Vep. About halfway through the first episode of Irma Vep, I knew I wanted to write about it. Neon's new series is ...

Assayas had based much of Mira's story on details from Stewart's life as a movie star, so Irma Vep forms a loose trilogy with Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper with Stewart. There's a ...

Olivier Assayas did what seems like the impossible: The writer-director remade his own 1996 film “Irma Vep” as an HBO limited series. Why? Well, Assayas saw the need to update the meta message ...

Here are five recent discoveries → TV: ‘Irma Vep’ Olivier Assayas’s “Irma Vep,” on HBO, is not as good as his 1996 film of the same name (and plot), but it is more compulsively watchable.

HBO's Olivier Assayas-helmed TV series Irma Vep might be a love letter to the chaos of moviemaking, but it also brought a moment of peace in his relationship with ex-wife Maggie Cheung. In an ...