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Category Archives: Paris film
Discovery in a dairy shed
Some movie reviewers are saying that Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, a 3D fantasy set in Paris, is the best film of 2011. It certainly gets our vote. We loved the story, the characters, and the special effects (well done without being … Continue reading
Posted in Paris film, Paris history
Tagged Brian Selznick, Chateau de Jeufosse, Gare Montparnasse, Georges Dufayel, Georges Méliès, Gustave Rives, Hugo, Jean Renoir, Jean-Placide Mauclaire, Les Grands Magasins Dufayel, Martin Scorsese, Salle Pleyel, Studio 28, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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Come walk with me in Paris
I have a confession to make. I have been moonlighting. That is, I’ve been writing for some other Paris blogs and websites, and recently, one of them published two walking tours that I created. Walking tours, whether the group or … Continue reading
Posted in Paris film, Paris shops, Paris travel
Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Avenue Mozart, Franck et Fils, Gary Cooper, Girls' Guide to Paris, Hotel Ritz, Hubert de Givenchy, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Little Black Dress, Michael Schürmann, Palais Royal, Peter O'Toole, Place Vendôme, rue Berton
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One thing leads to another
We both like to listen to Web radio while we work. We were particularly pleased to discover that Radio Classique, which we listen to in Paris (at call number 101.1) is available on the Internet. (Go to the site, click … Continue reading
Unreliable memories
Memory is a slippery thing. It depends a lot upon what you notice at the time. (Norman: I wonder who owns that yellow Lamborghini parked down the street. Me: There’s a Lamborghini parked on our street?) It also depends upon … Continue reading
French advertising postcards (I’ll drink to that)
With our flat only steps away from the Garden of the Champs Elysées near Avenue Gabriel, it was inevitable that we would meet. How could I resist colour so wonderfully lurid in a science-fiction/absinthe sort of way? My eyes didn’t … Continue reading
The photograph I didn’t take
It was winter and we were walking back to our rented apartment in the 14th arrondissement from Monoprix, with a borrowed buggy filled with basics – toilet paper, dried pasta, yogurt. We traipsed down a road called rue Campagne Première. … Continue reading
How to Make a Surprisingly Enduring Film
It’s not the best movie ever made in Paris. Nor is it the best movie made by either of its stars or its director. And yet, with its stylishness and wit, it remains watchable when so many other movies from … Continue reading
The red balloon
I’d nearly gone right past before I realized what I’d just seen. A balloon, drifting past the chairs and tables of a café in Montmartre. A red balloon. In Paris. I turned around and photographed it, murmuring to a bemused … Continue reading
