In celebration of the centenary of René Clément, StudioCanal have announced several new releases: FORBIDDEN GAMES on DVD/BLU-RAY, GERVAISE on DVD,THE DEADLY TRAP on DVD, AND HOPE TO DIE on DVD for 7th January 2013. Described as the French Hitchcock, René Clément was one of France’s great post-World War II era directors. Studying as an architect originally, it was at the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts that he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936 he directed his first film – a short written by and starring Jacques Tati. Clément then spent most of the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries. After the war he directed his first feature: La Bataille du rail (1945), about the French resistance, which was a critical and commercial success. He twice won Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film – including Forbidden Games, along with many other awards throughout his career.