Tag: Paris films
10 Magical Movie Theaters in Paris
One fail-safe way to escape summer heat is by dipping into an air-conditioned movie theater. Fortunately, Paris has many delightful (and chilled) cinemas to...
Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language) : Not Your Parents’ 3D
Jean-Luc Godard has been making films his own way for about 60 years, ever since Une Histoire d’Eau (A Story of Water), the documentary...
Maestro : Be Careful Of What You Don’t Wish For
Maestro is a film you want to like, but almost can’t, because it tries too hard. It has a nice, original concept: Henri Renaud,...
Qu’est-qu’on a fait au bon Dieu ? (What Did We Do to the Good...
The French export small, intense intimiste films, but for local consumption they go crazy for broad comedies like Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis and Intouchables....
Suzanne: Leaps of Fate
Suzanne was one of 2013’s best films but also one of the most overlooked (including by this reviewer). Winning the best supporting actress César...
Comment J’ai Détesté les Maths-How I Hated Math: Let Me Count The Ways!
Comment J’ai Detesté Les Maths (literally How I Hated Math), the amusing new documentary directed by Olivier Peyon comes at a very à propos...
Le Week-end
Jim Broadbent is Nick Burrows, a foppish schoolteacher from Birmingham. His wife, Meg (Lindsay Duncan), is unhappy in their relationship. It’s their anniversary. So, they escape...
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian): The Talking Cure
Arnaud Desplechin is one of the French cinema’s best-kept—but most highly regarded—secrets. He’s not an avant-garde director, but his challenging films (Esther Kahn, Rois...
Paris’ Most Unique Cinemas: The Cinémathèque Française, Still Going Strong (and Going Global)
The Cinématheque Française is a unique institution—there’s nothing quite like it anywhere else. It’s a repository of France’s cinematic heritage, whose screenings have provided...
Unique Cinemas in Paris: MK2 Bibliothèque
Cinéma refers not only to movies, but to the movie experience: sitting in a darkened room with a crowd of people in front...
Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu (You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet) : Alain Resnais’ Thrice-Told...
It’s hard to believe that Alain Resnais, the great director of such classics as Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad is still...
Cinéma Au Clair de La Lune: Movies Under the Parisian Moon
Movie-going is always very special in Paris, with its hundreds of theatres featuring every conceivable genre, but perhaps the most unique ...
