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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 19:18:13 GMT
Since I moved to Paris, about 75% of the screens on the Champs Elysées have closed due to the outrageous rents that are charged. However, there are a few cinemas left, and since I was in the neighborhood (and not at work!), I took a picture of all of the current cinematographic offerings on the Champs Elysées this week. Here is what is playing, but it is just a very small selection of what you can see in Paris at the cinema. In case you are wondering, the two films now playing that have received the best reviews are "Le Ruban Blanc," the Austrian film that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival this year, and "Le Concert," a French film by a Romanian director concerning the fact that Leonid Brezhnev had all of the Jewish musicians in the Bolshoi orchestra fired. The former (Jewish) conductor has become a janitor and intercepts, many years later, a fax from Paris inviting the Bolshoi orchestra to perform in one of the most prestigious theatres. He contacts all of the musicians who are fired, and they all come to Paris to masquerade as the Bolshoi orchestra. I haven't seen the movie yet, so I don't know if it is as good as the critics say it is. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 18:43:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2009 18:39:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2009 20:32:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2010 21:17:41 GMT
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Post by lola on Feb 19, 2010 15:15:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 17:51:51 GMT
I liked 'The Country Teacher' because it shows aspects of rural life to which us city folk do not have access.
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Post by lola on Feb 20, 2010 0:35:32 GMT
Thanks, Kerouac. I'll see if I can get into a showing. Artois the Goat ended up winning their Best Feature award.
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Post by lola on Feb 22, 2010 15:28:51 GMT
Country Teacher didn't fit our schedule, so I ended up going to Four Chapters while the girls hung out with the college crowd. Indian, obscure in some ways yet with overly obvious contrast between saint/brute in two sets of brothers. Actually I'm not entitled to review it, since I left 1/3 way through to watch ice dancing and soak in our fancy hotel room jacuzzi.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2010 15:41:35 GMT
I have probably walked out of fewer than 5 films in my life, because some movies can remarkably completely redeem themselves in the last 15 or 20 minutes. Too rarely, though!
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Post by lola on Feb 22, 2010 16:12:34 GMT
I walked in and paid my money before noticing that the film was to be shown on a largish screen TV at one end of a long narrow coffeehouse. Some guy walked up and put the DVD in. It was like watching a DVD at home, but in an uncomfortable chair.
My favorite walking out experience was an odd film we saw years ago at Washington U: lots of naked people in the woods, Europeans and a primitive tribe I think. We watched it all and at the end a man walked towards the exit saying, "Trash!" He wanted the rest of to know he was disgusted with what we'd just watched all of.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 19:18:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 22:29:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 23:42:31 GMT
'Diary of a Wimpy kid'. My son wants to see it this coming week. He's read all the books, they are so popular with little kids right now. So that will be my next movie lol. I hope I can sit through it  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2010 20:46:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2010 14:41:59 GMT
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Post by lola on May 8, 2010 16:07:26 GMT
I watched the trailers, including the one dubbed in French, for Iron Man 2 because I like Robt. D. Jr. Made me wonder, kerouac and others fluent in English, whether you go to the dubbed big screen versions of Hollywood films. Is is just as easy to see them subtitled?
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2010 18:16:18 GMT
I see everything in the original version except some animated films, because sometimes the voice cast is more interesting to me in French. For example in "Up" the old man was voiced by Charles Aznavour. I'll take him over Edward Asner any day of the week.
More than half of the screens in Paris present films in original version only, and it is gaining ground here. I'm not sure about the other cities of France, where dubbed versions still hold the upper ground.
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Post by bjd on May 8, 2010 19:29:18 GMT
Blockbuster Hollywood type movies are always dubbed here -- which I figure is one of the reasons young French people tend to have bad accents in English. They don't know what the language sounds like.
Actually, in Toulouse there are a couple of places that play everything in the original version, but they don't play Hollywood blockbusters.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2010 20:34:39 GMT
Not even UGC Ciné Cité? I've been to some of the ones in the provinces (Lille, Nancy and Strasbourg), and they had some major Hollywood fare available in original version.
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Post by bjd on May 9, 2010 7:02:06 GMT
Yes, there is one UGC that plays films in VO. But it's surrounded by other movie theatres that don't. And the big Gaumont doesn't. There are 2 Utopias, and several small places that play only VO, but these only show indie American or British movies.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2010 5:51:37 GMT
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Post by joanne28 on Jul 8, 2010 17:43:38 GMT
No. 2 opens here tomorrow, the third in the fall sometime.
I'm sitting on the edge of my seat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2010 20:31:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2010 12:31:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2010 18:05:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 16:53:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2010 19:01:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 18:19:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2010 13:56:45 GMT
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