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The Paris Cinema Project “For the first time in France since the war, a great Japanese film will premiere.” That was how Ce soir described the opening of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, starring Toshiro Mifune, at the Vendôme c…

The Paris Cinema Project Presents...'Rashomon' Comes to France...
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The Paris Cinema Project (Tenth Anniversary Edition!) presents...In search of Adrienne Gòrska (an archaeological expedition)...
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The Paris Cinema Project Presents...The Double Disappearance of Madeleine Rousset (a very sad story)...
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The Paris Cinema Project Presents..Samson, Delilah...and DeMille in Paris, around 1951...
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The Paris Cinema Project presents...Marlene Dietrich's Pants (and their trip to France)...
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The Paris Cinema Project Presents...World War Two and the Allied Bombing of the Palmarium Cinema...
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The Paris Cinema Project Presents...The Movie Star and the Gas Leak (an almost tragic story)...

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The Paris Cinema Project “The people of France…will not tolerate this warmongering film dishonoring our screens any longer.” That was the great French film historian and critic Georges Sadoul, writing in L’Humanité, the co…

The Paris Cinema Project presents...Ernst Lubitsch, Georges Sadoul, and 'Ninotchka' in Paris, 1930-1950...
To one and all--
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The Paris Cinema Project presents...The catastrophic fires of 1939 and '40...
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The Paris Cinema Project Aujourd’hui, Maman est morte. “Maman died today.” But two days later, Meursault went to the movies. Meursault, of course, is the hero—if that’s the right term—of Albert Camus’ 1942 novel, L’Étrange…

The Paris Cinema Project Presents...Albert Camus, L'Étranger, and Fernandel in Algiers...
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The Paris Cinema Project Even the collaborationist press in France was outraged when,in May 1943, the Nazi occupying authority declared a new edict regarding the country’s cinema. La Gazette, covering the news in Biarritz,…

The Paris Cinema Project presents...Smoking at the Movies (in Paris! Go figure!)
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The Paris Cinema Project “Does Adrienne Górska think this is a feminine profession? Yes, she does!” That was the emphatic assertion that Suzanne Normand made in the news and culture magazine Marianne in her February 1936 p…

The Paris Cinema Project presents...the great architect of French cinemas, Adrienne Górska (spoiler alert: Her sister was Tamara de Lempicka!).

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