This national institution is a temple to the ‘seventh art’ and always screens its foreign offerings in their original versions. Up to 10 films a day are shown, usually retrospectives (eg Spielberg, Altman, Eastwood) mixed in with related but more obscure films.
La Cinémathèque Française
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