Episode 3: La Rue du Cinéma

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Episode 3: La Rue du Cinéma

In this slightly delayed but packed episode, Manuela visits the iconic rue Champollion

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Dec 18, 2023

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During her second week in Paris, Manuela revisited an important place in our lives as cinephiles: the Forum des Images. This is where we both first saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) years ago, before we’d even started studying film seriously. This time around, Manuela went to see the documentary Orlando, My Political Biography (2023) by Paul B. Preciado, with the director in attendance for a post-film Q&A.

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The French Dispatch

An investigation into the clichés about French culture and cinema.

In the first ever Animus podcast, founder and editor Elena Lazic in London, UK, talks to her sister Manuela once a week about the latter's experience of cinephilia in Paris, France — from the cost of cinemagoing to the differences in programming, from independent cinemas to multiplexes, etc.

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