Paris museums getting key parts in films
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PARIS  - The two most visited museums in Paris, the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay, are facing off in an unusual contest -- as patrons of the seventh art. In the next two years they will between them underwrite screenplays by seven critically acclaimed international filmmakers for films to be shot -- at least partly -- inside their walls.
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An American bestseller, much of it set in Paris, has given the French tourist industry an unexpected boost as readers flock to the places mentioned in it to see for themselves the paintings and buildings in the book.
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Moviegoers are most likely to associate the Newark Museum with the annual Black Film Festival it has hosted for the past 30 years.
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Through a two-year partnership with the British Film Institute, HP will assist the organization in creating a digital archive of more than 300 films and television shows. When it opens in March, the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank will have a catalog of films and videos spanning more than a century.
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A live version of the epic 1959 film Ben-Hur is to be recreated in the Stade de France stadium in Paris.
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Le Grand Palais is where Parisians go to worship Les Grands Artistes &#151; Delacroix, for example, or Renoir or Manet. So the latest show there is practically a revolution.
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Mickey Mouse, enduring symbol of U.S.   popular culture, breaks into a bastion of French high art this   week, when the Grand Palais in Paris stages an exhibition   focusing on the sources of Walt Disney's art.
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There are a number of lovely performances in The Paris Review's second set of selected interviews, and a somewhat greater proportion of duller ones.
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French national museums including the Louvre in Paris will let in many visitors free in the coming months, in an experiment intended to open up high culture to a wider public.
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The Museum of the Moving Image will add new galleries, an outdoor theater, an educational center and a new collection storage facility as part of a &#36;25 million renovation and expansion of its Queens site, museum officials announced Thursday.
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More than just a repository of dying trades, the museum of tools and its associated library in the French town of Troyes are home to a vast collection of books about the craftsmanship of the past.
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A museum displays the surrealist's celluloid endeavors and delves into his relationship with the film industry.
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French architect Christian de  Portzamparc has been named to design the world's largest and  most ambitious museum dedicated to the history of film and the  Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on  Thursday.
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Film buffs can see a variety of domestic and foreign films during the Ida Rupp Public Library's cinema arts series starting Friday.
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A west London comprehensive could become bi-lingual, with funding from the French government.
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DEAUVILLE, France  - It took a  whistle-stop tour Saturday by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to  add some fizz to the Deauville Festival of American Cinema's  30th birthday party, a day after its low-key bow with a French  film, Claude Lelouch's "Les Parisiens."
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Work-related skills like museum management and tourism will be included in a new history GCSE.