July 17th: Tonight begins the Villette/Belleville/Canal St. Martin Outdoor Film Festival opening with Robert Altman’s Gosford Park.
Metro: Porte de Pantin. Parc de la Villette.
Screenings begin at nightfall. Ben&Jerry’s ice cream will be sold on location. You can rent a lawn chair for 6.50 Euros.
Don’t miss the July 25th screening of Dirk Bogard in [...]
July 12, just two days before Bastille Day, when heads once rolled from the Paris guillotines, French senator Nicole Borvo Cohen sent a letter to the US court on the behalf of Troy Davis, supplicating that his execution be stopped.
France abolished its death penalty in the mid 1970s.
She writes: “I am convinced that [...]
They say it’s useful to travel just to get a different perspective on your own country. Big News in the US and Big News in France are two different things - especially when it comes to how news in the US is covered. Just to give you an example, in today’s July 16th [...]
