Marty in Paris
... for the inauguration of the new La Cinematheque Francaise. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050927/ap_en_mo/martin_scorsese_1 Scorsese Attends Film Center Inauguration Tue Sep 27 PARIS - Directors Martin Scorsese and Wong Kar-Wai joined hundreds of film buffs at the inauguration of a new home for La Cinematheque Francaise film center. The center moved Monday into a stylish building designed by Frank Gehry in eastern Paris, ending a two-decade hunt for a new location. "The Cinematheque has been waiting for this moment for a long time," said producer-director Claude Berri, the cinematheque president. "Now it's done." The center was created in 1936 to promote art-house films and defend French cinema. It has had many locations over the years, most recently near the Eiffel Tower. French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres called the cinematheque a place "where films won't be consumed like products, but preserved, watched, studied, compared and loved, as works." The center gets most of its funding from the French government, and the minister said France would continue to support national funding to protect national cinematic production. He defended France's longtime policy of "cultural exception" — a policy of state support for homegrown art, film and music to counter the influence of American pop culture. "It's not insulting American cinema to note that 85 percent of cinema seats sold around the world are done so for the films that it produces," he told visitors that included Wong and Scorsese. The center opens to the public Wednesday. Visitors will have access to four screening rooms, libraries and exhibition halls in the more than 150,000 square feet of floor space in the building, which previously housed an American cultural center and has been vacant since 1996.

Scorsese in Paris
Many Thanks, will. It sounds beautiful! Here's another link: http://www.canada.com/

Thanks will and virgo. I hope we have such a centre one day. We have a lot of history to preserve ourselves in Australia.

La Cinematheque Francaise
will and virgo, thanks for news/pix about Scorsese attending the inauguration of the La Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. When I read your topic title….Marty in Paris….I thought it must be for an important event, knowing how much he dislikes flying. And I know this is something Scorsese would want to be part of ~ "where films won't be consumed like products, but preserved, watched, studied, compared and loved, as works." Sounds like a fantastic place to visit.

tks Will. It really does sound something special and wonderful, how lovely to have a place like that to go and visit.

Re: Marty in Paris
Thanks Will La Cinematheque Francaise. :D Not my favourite Gehry but I wish it well and it's a lot nicer than the NFT in London which looks like a nuclear bunker. :evil: