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Max Linder Panorama: 24 Boulevard Poissonnière, 9th, M° Grands Boulevards, ☎ 08 36 68 50 52. Tickets £8.50 (£4.50 for the 12:15pm screenings). It’s easy to walk right past the discreet façade of this historic theater, opened by the burlesque actor Max Linder in 1914. In the 1980s it was completely gutted and modernized with three seating levels, THX sound and a panoramic screen. All films are shown in their original version.
La Pagode:57 (bis Rue de Babylone, 7th, M° Saint François Xavier, ☎ 01 45 55 48 48. Tickets £7.30 (£5.80 on Mondays and Wednesdays). A pagoda in Paris? It all started in 1895 when the owner of the Bon Marché department store purchased a pagoda in Japan and had it shipped to Paris, stone-by-stone, as a wedding gift to his wife. The marriage didn’t last, however, and in 1931 the beautifully carved pagoda and its Japanese garden were transformed into a movie theater, conserving as much of the original décor as possible. Try to see a film in the Salle Japonaise instead of the modern Salle 2.
OPEN-AIR CINEMA FESTIVALS Paris has two annual open-air cinema festivals each summer. The better known one is at the Parc de la Villette, every night at about 10pm except Monday, from mid-July through August (free entry, bring a blanket or rent a beach chair on site; schedule at www.la-villette.com, featuring classics and recent hits from around the world in their original language. Many English-language films are included. The Cinéma au Clair de Lune is another free festival that takes place in public squares and parks all over Paris in mid-August, showing films set in Paris (from 9:30pm; chairs provided for limited number of people; (www.forumdesimages.net). |
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