The Paris city council has an astounding 900 movie shoots to look after each year, and for the biggest projects they also prepare film trails so you can see where the movies were shot.

After Inception and Midnight In Paris, the latest film trail is for Martin Scorsese’s new movie, Hugo, and two of the locations just next to our hotels! (lire la suite / continue reading)

17th edition for this ever-growing festival with loads of premieres and queer icons Jane Birkin, Béatrice Dalle and Emmanuelle Béart as guest stars! (lire la suite / continue reading)

If mainstream films make you barf, and the voluntarily odd is your bag, then rejoice! The Etrange Festival is back, and this year they’ve even got some Cannes winners in the line-up!

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The absolute classic, rich inspiration for numerous filmmakers, comes to the Paris Cinémathèque in a vast exhibition accompanied by a Fritz Lang retrospective and the re-release in cinemas of fresh copies of the restored, miraculously-found full-length version…Screen caps from www.dvdbeaver.com. Click the images to go to the site’s review of the Blu-ray release

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As if La Villette wasn’t enough for you all, here’s another festival with free outdoor film showings on offer. However, this one is slightly novel, as it moves from place to place each night! Intrigued? Read on…
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Special preview showings, French film stars, a selection of short films, all-night screenings, a huge cine-karaoke session followed by a giant ball, Mexican cinema to disxover, re-released classics an Isabella Rossellini retrospective, 3 films in 3D, a cinema-related brocante, a special celebration of 25 years of Pixar, a photo exhibition, meet ‘n’ greets… It’s practically Cannes along the Seine! (lire la suite / continue reading)

Subtitled this year « from one street to the next », this completely free festival is back with a selection of popular but quality films, and a free bonus short film at weekends! Here’s the details…

photo by Meg Zimbeck used under cc licence

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The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing, but if you’re stuck in boring old Paris, do not despair; part of the Festival will soon be winging its way to you! The entire programme of films from the La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) will soon be at the Forum des Images. (lire la suite / continue reading)

The Paris City Council has a movie division, and they have kindly prepared a map showing where parts of Woody Allen’s latest film was shot. And gosh! There almost all near our hotels! Carla’s impossibly sculpted cheekbones look overjoyed… (lire la suite / continue reading)

It’s not every day that a dingy old cinema near our hotels is sold, redesigned by Matali Crasset and renamed. Ladies and gentlemen, here’s our guided tour of the Nouvel Odéon.

photos (except where marked): JasonW

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