A summer of cinema and champagne in the city of love and light

[Surya Gayatri]

From floating down the Seine to lying in a double bed, there are all suddenly sorts of novel ways to watch films


Forget Los Angeles. Paris is aiming to be the cinematic capital of the world this summer. There will be any number of options for devoted film fans – fitting for a city that boasts hundreds of screens, close to one for every 5,000 of its citizens.

In June, just off the Champs Elysées, they will be able to watch classic movies all night while lying in a double bed drinking champagne. Alternatively, in July and August, they will be able to watch movies while sitting on the grass in a park.

It is not just the summer months either. From October there will be a floating cinema on the river Seine, shifting its mooring place every two days and showing new films while audiences eat.

It used to be said that the French capital had so many cinemas that you could sit in front of a different screen each day of the year. That remains true but a year no longer suffices to visit them all; three new cinemas are to open in the coming weeks, bringing the number of screens to 431. The real boom, however, is in experimental and convivial forms of movie-going, both permanent and ephemeral.

For 12 days in June the Grand Palais, a gigantic art exhibition hall in the Beaux Arts style near the Champs Elysées, covered by one of the largest glass roofs in the world, will become a cinema with 4,000 seats. Classic US movies from the 1980s to the present day will be shown from 7pm to 6am.

More here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-summer-of-cinema-and-champagne-in-the-city-of-love-10203016.html

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This is for those in love with movies and with Paris.

Nobody loves the 7e Art like the French. They are the cinema curators for the world.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_des_arts#7e_art_-_le_cin.C3.A9ma

Read the article for much more info on the "Ville de Lumière" and her love affair with movies.