Wednesday, November 05, 2008

More Movies Featuring Paris

Gigi

From a 1944 novel by Colette and 1951 musical comedy, this 1958 Leslie Caron film won nine Oscars, with songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe; set in a glorious Belle Époque Paris, with costumes right out of Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Breathless

The landmark 1960 French New Wave film with a too-cool Jean-Paul Belmondo and heartbreakingly young Jean Seberg running from the cops on the mean streets of Paris.

Is Paris Burning?

A 1966 pseudo-documentary style re-creation of the liberation of Paris during World War II with a platoon of stars, including Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Orson Welles and Simone Signoret.