I find myself going to movie theatres when I’m traveling abroad. I once went to a great art house movie theatre in the Latin Quarter in Paris back in 2003. Right after Katherine Hepburn passed away, they played a Katherine Hepburn film festival including Bringing up Baby (Le Fantastic Monsieur Bebe) the day I left.
Last year in Paris, I watched the Coco Chanel biopic starring Audrey Tatou in a Paris movie theatre on the Champs Elysees on its opening day.
This time around, I found out about the British Film Institute from my London guidebook. When you come from a country where art house and vintage movie theatres are falling away into extinction, a venue like the British Film Institute is heaven.
The week I was in London, they were playing Rashomon, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and La Strada. I ended up seeing La Strada. Anthony Quinn was wonderful as the moody, selfish, narcissistic strongman and Guilettia Massina was a very poignant, Harpo Marx, impish female hero. I just love Fellini.
one girl one house 