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10 best films to see Paris on the silver screen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf springtime in Paris isn't going to work for you this year, rent a movie and pretend -- until you can book a flight and go. Here are my Top 10 picks for films that best show off the French capital. For scenes from these memorable films, go to latimes....Tags: Leslie Caron, Frederick Forsyth, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, George Gershwin
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'The 400 Blows' -- 4 stars / 'Antoine and Colette' -- 3 1/2 stars (both directed by Francois Truffaut)
Tribune movie criticShot in supple black and white in widescreen Dyalscope, Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork "The 400 Blows" seems forever young. Why? Partly because of its casting; partly because Truffaut knew how to communicate to an audience eager for unsentimental...Tags: Music Theater, New York, Music Box Theatre, Theater, John Cassavetes
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'Le Doulos' (crime drama in 1963 Paris) -- 4 stars
Tribune newspapersFrench director Jean-Pierre Melville is the great poet of crime cinema, and 1963's "Le Doulos"--starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and set in Paris, the most criminally romantic city in the world--is a tour de force. Freshly subtitled by the always-expert...Tags: Moby, Ethics, Values, New York, Music Box Theatre
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Keeping a French tradition
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSomeone once noted that a sure sign of the passing of a cultural phenomenon is not its disappearance but its preservation, or sanctification, in a museum. And so it is now with smoking in France. After I moved to Paris three years ago from Manhattan,...Tags: Jean-Paul Sartre, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Culture, Smoking, New York
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'Pierrot le Fou'
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...Tags: Samuel Fuller, Popular Music, California, Santa Monica, West L.A.
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'Le Doulos'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrench director Jean-Pierre Melville is the great poet of crime cinema, and 1963's "Le Doulos" -- starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and set in Paris, the most criminally romantic city in the world -- is a tour de force. Playing for a week at the Nuart in...Tags: Moby, California, San Diego (San Diego, California), Santa Monica, Ethics
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'My Best Friend'
jan.stuart@newsday.comThe inexhaustible Daniel Auteuil is Francois Coste, a finicky antiques dealer more intimate with prized objets than people. After he rebuffs his business partner's observation that he hasn't a single close friend, he accepts a challenge from her:...Tags: Newsday Inc., Daniel Auteuil, New York City, Manhattan
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'For Ever Godard' celebrates a New Wave master
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard is not merely the iconoclastic, indefatigable enfant terrible of France's New Wave but one of the most idiosyncratic and important filmmakers of the 20th century, whose innovative spirit continues to flourish into the 21st. His...Tags: Media, Wars and Interventions, Armand Hammer, International Military Interventions, Humphrey Bogart
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Paris, with popcorn
Times Staff WriterNobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...Tags: Ernst Lubitsch, Nicholas Ray, California, Clint Eastwood, Hayao Miyazaki
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'Elevator to the Gallows'
Times Staff WriterAs beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major...Tags: Robert Bresson, Media, California, Atlantic County, Miles Davis
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