Anyway, here's a couple of pictures of the beautiful theater, inside and out. (This guy has some nice pictures, too.)
18 August 2006
La Pagode
We might have mentioned that Parisians LOVE cinema. We saw the version originale of The Ant Bully last weekend, and today I went to a matinee movie at La Pagode. It's an amazing little 110-year-old pagoda in a pretty garden, or as one web page put it, "salle mythique et temple d'architecture asiatique transformé dans les années 30 en salle de cinéma." The "salle mythique" was built by the founder of Le Bon Marché, one of the grands magasins Parisian department stores, for his wife. The marriage didn't last, and the building has sort of languished over the years, but the 1930s theater-retrofit was updated a couple of years ago and they show a variety of new and older films. Thursday mornings are primarily for seniors, so the "crowd" was about 30 folks all 60+ and maybe 3 people roughly our age. I saw Big Fish by Tim Burton. It's a very sweet story, worth renting. And only 6E, a bargain for a movie around here, though next Sunday through Tuesday every showing of every movie in every theater in Paris is only 3E!
Anyway, here's a couple of pictures of the beautiful theater, inside and out. (This guy has some nice pictures, too.)
Anyway, here's a couple of pictures of the beautiful theater, inside and out. (This guy has some nice pictures, too.)
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yeah big fish is a good movie me and jess have it on dvd. but be mindful the auburn they show in the movie is not the real auburn which ruined the whole movie for me plus a couple other historically incorrect tidbits about auburn that that SOB tim burton tries to push off as fact but jess didnt seem to be as bothered by them as i was so maybe its just me... but other than that its a cute movie did i mention i do own it. hope yall are doing well. all is well in TN.
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