movie buzz

It’s almost over at this point, but for what it’s worth… Yesterday was a three-movie day, which I’ve learned to avoid if I can, because it tends to be too much, but sometimes it’s not avoidable. Morgan Spurlock — he of Super Size Me fame — has a new doc about the global war on … more…

A movie theater in Montparnasse: And seen in the Metro, a billboard for the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival: And one of the festival’s sponsors?

Gerard Butler pretended to be here: (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera was actually shot entirely on soundstages in London, and not at the Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera House, at all.) John Wayne was never here: (That’s just one of the many English, Scottish, and Irish pubs in Paris.)

Matt Damon was here (in the Tuileries): Audrey Tautou was here (in Monmartre):

(The Ruins didn’t screen for critics, but Leatherheads and Nim’s Island did… and I missed them while I’m here in Paris drinking wine in sidewalk cafes and getting seduced by guys named Jean-Luc and Alain. Oh, woe is me. I’ll catch up with everything next week and report.) The Ruins You know how they tell … more…

Ethan Hawke was here: Tom Hanks was here: Cool.

In French but a direct translation: Et ici, a hilariously new title: Fun!

Step Up 2 the Streets becomes Sexy Dance 2 in France… yet the title is still in English. But look: The Other Boleyn Girl becomes Deux Soeurs our un Roi, which means “two sisters for a king”… which is pretty funny, and rhymes in French, too.

I’m in Paris this week. Maybe I’ll catch a movie here — at the very least, I’d like to see the inside of a Parisian movie theater. But I’m certainly going to miss the press screenings of the three major releases opening this Friday, April 4, all of which I’ve been really looking forward to. … more…