🤷 Montmartre - 18th Arrondissement - Bruno Podalydès: street parking romance

🤷 Quais de Seine - 5th Arrondissement - Gurinder Chadha: riverside catcalls

👍 Le Marais - 4th Arrondissement - Gus Van Sant: silent type

🤷 Tuileries- 1st Arrondissement - Joel & Ethan Coen: Métro fight

👍 Loin du 16e - 16th Arrondissement - Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas: Spanish lullaby

👎 Porte de Choisy - 13th Arrondissement - Christopher Doyle: Chinatown salon

👍 Bastille - 12th Arrondissement - Isabel Coixet: love…

“Chill beneath a cadaverously-gray autumn sky, the tiny New Mexico town. That slate moment in the seasons when everything begins to grow dark. The epileptic scratching of fallen leaves hurled along sidewalks. Mad sounds from the hills. Cold. And something else:

A leopard, escaped, is loose in the town.

Chill beneath a crawling terror of spotted death in the night, the tiny New Mexico town. That thick red moment in suspense in the time-honored sense of the fears of small…

Surprising to see a comedy about children re-enacting trench warfare — complete with homemade gas masks, metal helmets, an artillery piece, and a tank with working treads — fought with rotten vegetables and firecrackers as ammunition made just five years after the 1918 Armistice ended the First World War, but that battle only lasts through the first third of the picture. The rest involves the Our Gang kids infiltrating West Coast Studios (the actual grounds of Hal Roach Studios), wreaking…

Harold the idle rich Boy proposes marriage to The Girl on a whim, s the Navy to prove that he can hold a job, and wins the approval of her busy industrialist father after rescuing her from the Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna (an imaginary Oriental blend of Turkey and India close enough to the USA for a small sailboat to pay a quick visit just when Harold happens to get shore leave there). The basic premise of a hapless wealthy American…