At the time of legendary cinemas

Cinemas are closed. Nostalgia is in full swing. There was a time when what was happening in the room was almost as interesting as what we saw on the screen. The Cinémathèque had for successive addresses the avenue de Messine, the rue d'Ulm, the Palais de Chaillot. You had to sit in the first row. We met Godard, Truffaut, Rivette. The brilliant and messy Henri Langlois watched over his audience.

At the Studio des Ursulines, where the premiere of the Andalusian Dog took place , the surrealists started fights. The Mac-Mahon, close to the Star, sheltered a movement which defended the ace square, Preminger, Losey, Walsh, Lang. They opposed the "Hitchcocko-Hawksians". In the 16th arrondissement, the Ranelagh featured Les Enfants du paradis all the time .

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At the Universal Studio, next to the Opera, there were only cartoons. Tom and Jerry made the law and, at the intermission, we distributed cartoons to the children. Hollywood Boulevard specialized in Bruce

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