I Prefer Paris

Midnight in Paris on DVD

I wrote about the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris when it first came out. Here is an interesting take on the film by Nancy Evans.The DVD will be released on December 20.

The newest Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris, could turn out to be the most subtle, yet thoughtful, time traveling movie ever made, because it's not really about time travel so much as it's about nostalgia for the past mixed with the textures of France and ruminations about the meaning of art and love. The film centers around Gil, a screenwriter from Hollywood who is hoping to be inspired enough by the city of Paris in order to write his first novel. Gil is having trouble reconciling the magic of the city with the lack of romance he shares with his fiancee Inez, who seems more interested in having mimosas at the Club Méditerranée than she is actually experiencing the breathtaking splendor of the city itself.

One night Gil unwittingly gets into a car with rowdy group of Parisian socialites that he soon realizes are none other than Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Whether or not he has entered a parallel universe, time traveled, or simply hallucinated, what's happening is not critically important to the film. Viewers are asked to suspend their disbelief and take a ride through Paris of the early 20th century. Gil finds himself enjoying the modern treasures of the French capital in their actual timeframe and dancing the night away with some of the most famous Parisian artists in history, including up close and personal encounters with Salvador Dali, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, and Man Ray, among many others.

While the plot is certainly wonderful and Owen Wilson adds his usual comic relief, one of the great values in the film is Woody Allen's depiction of France. The film opens with an over three minute long montage of the city that twinkles with atmospheric poetry. It is reminiscent of his early film Manhattan, which opens with a similar montage of New York. The Midnight in Paris opening shows the iconic city during both the night and day, in the rain and in the sunshine, in winter and in summer, showcasing The Palace of Versailles, the John XXIII Square, the Eiffel Tower and other classic landmarks of Paris, France.

Ultimately the film is about accepting the people and places in your life for what they are, and not clinging on too tightly to some fictitious concept of a Golden Age at the expense of appreciating the reality of the present. In the process, viewers get to see the city of Paris depicted as a colorful character that comes alive and speaks to you with a voice full of history and magic.

Click here to pre-order Midnight in Paris from Amazon

Eye Prefer Paris on Twitter

I just launched a fun new daily Twitter post- Paris Photo du Jour. Every day I will post a photo of Paris. Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/eyepreferparis
 

Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale

I am happy to announce the sale of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos.  I am offering 17 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my courtyards, doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.

Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
 Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival 4th Edition

Fashion icon, cult blogger, fashion critic, and video journalist Diane Pernet launches the 4th International edition of A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival, a film festival devoted to fashion and style in film. The three day festival is a kaleidoscope of short films (each 30 seconds to 5 minutes long), culminating in the announcement of the winners of ASVOFF’s coveted prizes (the MK2 Grand Prize, Best Film, Best Art Direction, Best Acting, Best Styling, Best Sound Design, the Shu Uemura Beauty Prize and the Emerging Talent Award presented by Portal+Zekka).  

Spanning both the establishment and the underground, fashion brands & designers featured in this year’s films include Yves Saint Laurent, Balmain, Undercover, Miu Miu, Comme des Garcons, Maison Martin Margiela, House of Holland, Stephen Jones, Prada, Dries Van Noten, Charlie le Mindu, Calvin Klein, and Gareth Pugh.  Behind the camera are photographers Bruce Weber, Ellen von Unwerth, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Lisa Eisner, Mark Borthwick, Bryan Adams, Walter Pfeiffer, the late Richard Avedon and many others who have turned their hand to video or film in order to capture people with inspirational style who will appear either onscreen or in person at ASVOFF like Rossy de Palma, Daphne Guinness,Christina Kruse, Faye Dunaway and Ultra Violet (the muse of both Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol).

The iconic Daphne Guinness will make a special appearance to introduce films by Joseph Lally, before sitting for a Q&A session on her many exciting current and forthcoming projects.  Rossy de Palma, the legendary actress and muse of Pedro Almodóvar, will also make a special appearance and introduce a film by Kelley Sane.

This year 103 films by 88 directors have been selected for the festival, 68 of which are in competition for prizes. Filmmakers hail from 17 countries far and wide including France, Chile, USA, Latvia, Italy, Japan, UK, Switzerland & Israel.

My partner Vincent Gagliostro is proud to have his short film with Drew Barrymore in the festival.

A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival 4th Edition
October 8: 19:45 - 21:00 SHORT-FILM PROGRAM 1, 1:30 - 13:00 SHORT-FILM PROGRAM 2, 13:15 - 14:30 SHORT-FILM PROGRAM 3, 14:45 - 16:15 SHORT-FILM PROGRAM 4 .
October 9: 11:30 - 13:00 SHORT-FILM PROGRAM 2,13:15- 14:00 ELLEN VON UNWERTH SHORT-FILM RETROSPECTIVE, 14:15-5:30 SHORT-FILM PROGRAM 3, 12:15 - 13:15 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES - PROGRAM 1,13:30 - 14:45 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES - PROGRAM 2,15:00 - 17:45 FOCUS ON JOSEPH LALLY WITH DAPHNE GUINNESS
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004
Metro: Rambuteau or Hotel de Ville
http://www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com/

Click here to read my article about some of the best custom shops in Paris in Passport magazine this month.

 

In addition to my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, we now offer Eye Prefer New York Tours, 3-hour walking tours of New Yorkís best neighborhoods including Soho, Meatpacking/West Village & Tribeca. Tours cost $195 for up to 3 people and $65 for each additional person.Come take a bit of the Big Apple on an Eye Prefer New York Tour!

Come experience my blog ìliveî with my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I lead. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris. www.eyepreferparistours.com
 

 

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

Kings of Pastry

   
Kings of Pastry is a riveting, moving, and sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the competition for one of most honored prizes in France, The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Awarded every four years,The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France is a prize awarded to the top pastry chefs and was created over fifty years ago to affirm the importance of manual labor. The intense and grueling three-day competition is the stuff pastry legends are made and hardened of.

The story is about the dream of Jacquy Pfeiffer, the celebrated pastry chef and co-founder of the highly reputable French Pastry School in Chicago (the only school in the US. fully dedicated to teaching only baking), to win the ultimate prize of the pastry world, the red white, and blue Meilleurs Ouvriers collar. Competing with 15 other finalists, the film follows him from his months of preparation and perfecting his techniques in Chicago and in the final month in different pastry kitchens in France, to the awards ceremony in Lyon, with President Sarkozy presiding. Veteran documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker switch gears from the political turmoil of Washington with the film The War Room, to the exclusive and impassioned world of French pastry making.

Don't miss this highly entertaining and mouth-watering film. It's enough to make you want to fly to Paris to have a pastry.

Kings of Pastry
Tuesday, June 21 at 10PM on your local PBS station. Check your local listings.

Take a peak at the trailer below. Subscribers click on this link if link below doesn't work.

http://youtu.be/-ANUMYH07-Q

Watch the full episode. See more POV.

I would love for you to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Eye Prefer Paris with me, so please join me at the fabulous, newly opened O'Chateau wine bar on Wednesday, July 6 between 7PM and 9PM. The address of O'Chateau is 68, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Metro: Louvre-Rivoli or Etienne Marcel. I look forward to seeing you and meeting some of my readers I have never met before. Please RSVP to  r.nahem@gmail.com

 

 

In addition to my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, we now offer Eye Prefer New York Tours, 3-hour walking tours of New York's best neighborhoods including Soho, Meatpacking/West Village & Tribeca. Tours cost $195 for up to 3 people and $65 for each additional person.Come take a bit of the Big Apple on an Eye Prefer New York Tour!

Come experience my blog ìliveî with my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I lead. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris. www.eyepreferparistours.com
 

 

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

Midnight in Paris from Woody Allen

Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris, is a glorious visual love letter to Paris as only Woody Allen can make. The opening sequence, a montage of the most beautiful sights of Paris including the Place de la Concorde, the Seine, Pont Alexander bridge, Fouquet cafe, Place Vendome, Rodin museum, Notre Dame, and of course, the Eiffel Tower, sets the mood perfectly.

The story is about a frustrated Hollywood screenwriter Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson) who is struggling to find inspiration to finish his first novel. He comes to Paris with his stuck up, bourgeois fiancee and her suffocatingly rich parents. Gil gets restless one night and decides to wander the dark streets of Paris. Suddenly a 1920s sedan pulls up and the drunken guests in the car whisk him off his feet to a party. It turns out the party takes him back in time to 1920s Paris and he meets the likes of Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitgerald, and Picasso at this secret party. He also finds his muse, played by the radiant Marion Cotillard, who he also shares with Picasso and Hemingway. Gil returns back to the hotel and goes for his mystery walks every night consequently,also meeting Dali and Gertrude Stein(played by the marvelous Kathy Bates), who he gives his novel to. The usual comedic Woody Allen antics ensue as Gil tries to cover his tracks and not reveal his new found world. Eventually he finds his true self. Carla Bruni convincingly plays the world's most beautiful tour guide (how could I compete with that? But I have much more personality, if that counts) dressed in jeans and simple blouse, miles away from her Chanel couture and glamorous role as First Lady.

If you can't get here soon, or need a boost other than my blog, go take a romantic 90 minute vacances to Paris, courtesy of Woody Allen.

Subscribers, if video below doesn't work, click this link.

 

Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale

I am happy to announce the sale of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos.  I am offering 17 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my courtyards, doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.

Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
 Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Elizabeth Taylor- The Last Time I Saw Paris

I shed a tear yesterday for the passing of Elizabeth Taylor.

Hollywood royalty, child star, Oscar winning actress, ravishing beauty, style icon, and great humanitarian, Elizabeth Taylor was just as famous off camera as she was on. The public couldn't get enough of her joy, tragedy, illnesses, and eight marriages. In her later years she was a selfless and tireless AIDS activist raising awareness and millions of dollars for the disease after the death of her close friend Rock Hudson.  We will truly miss her and the era of great Hollywood stars has truly ended with her death.

Here is a clip from one of her memorable films, The Last Time I Saw Paris, made in 1954 also starring Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Walter Pidgeon, and Eva Gabor. Based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it's about an ex-pat couple living the Paris high life in the late 1940s after WWII and has a tragic ending. Elizabeth Taylor looks breathtakingly beautiful in the film and her performance as a reckless free spirit is quite good. The haunting title song The Last Time I Saw Paris is by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

 

In addition to my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, we now offer Eye Prefer New York Tours, 3-hour walking tours of New Yorkís best neighborhoods including Soho, Meatpacking/West Village & Tribeca. Tours cost $195 for up to 3 people and $65 for each additional person.Come take a bit of the Big Apple on an Eye Prefer New York Tour!

Come experience my blog ìliveî with my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I lead. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris. www.eyepreferparistours.com
 

 

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival

The Grand Duchess of fashion bloggers, Diane Pernet, presents the third edition of A Shaded View on Fashion Festival, the First Annual International Fashion, Style and Beauty Film Festival. This year there are 67 films in competition by established and young, up and coming artists including Glen Luchford, Steven Klein, The Quay Brothers, Wing Shya, Johan Renck, Stephan Blaise, Daniel Eskils, Miho Kinomura, Rain Li, Cyril Guyot, Alex Prager, Marcelo Krasilcic, Frod & Marcus, Tilda Swinton, Hannelore Knuts, and Bryce Dallas Howard. The prestigious jury members are Olivier Saillard (Musée Galliera) - President of the ASVOFF Jury, Mike Figgis (Director Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode), Elisabeth Quin,Michael Nyman (Composer The Piano), Dita Von Teese, Paolo Roversi (Photographer), musician Bryan Adams, Fabrice Brovelli (BETC Euro-RSCG), Nadja Romain (Independant Producer), Sara Maino (Vogue Italia), Emmanuelle Castro (Wild Bunch Distribution), and Zowie Broach (Boudicca). Out of competition films include directors Zoe Cassavetes, Bruce Weber, and Kenneth Anger. There will be special live performances by Rosey Chan, Sayoko Paris, and rock group My Name is Claude.

September 25, and 26th 
Centre Pompidou
Metro: Rambuteau or Hotel de Ville                                                                                                      For full schedule go to http://www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com/program

   

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

AFTER LOUIE- Vincent Gagliostro's Film Project

Vincent has set up a link on Kickstarter for financial pledges for his film. Each pledge over $10 comes with a reward and the rewards are setup in different tiers. For example, if you donate $10 or more, you receive a limited edition 4"x6" photograph signed by Vincent and the photographs are original stills from the video installation of the original AFTER LOUIE project, for $50 you receive an signed original set of 8"x10" prints from Vincent's notebooks for AFTER LOUIE and a digital download of the completed film, and for $1,000 or more you will get a cameo appearance in the film along with your name in the credits.

Coming soon: Eye Prefer New York Tours

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival

Fashion journalist icon Diane Pernet, who is the editor in chief of the cutting edge fashion site A Shaded View on Fashion, is presenting her second annual fashion, style, and beauty film festival. Diane strives to to push the boundaries of fashion in the realm of the moving image. The festival is a meeting of artistic minds who make and film fashion.

Forty films will be shown in competition with films by and about Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Erwin Olaf, Steven Klein, Dita von Teese, Mr Pearl, Chris Cunningham, Benjamin Seroussi, Camille Vivier, Waris Ahluwalia, Joana Preiss . Four awards will be given and the esteemed jury includes Rick Owens (President of the Jury), renowned, visionary American independent designer ; Nan Goldin, legendary photographer ; Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and film director, Eric Tong Cuong, founding member and president of La Chose brand content agency ; Éric Troncy, art critic and curator ; Laurent Goumarre, host of “18/20” radio show on France Culture and culture editor for Têtu Magazine ; Hélène Ségol, producer and head of the music-video department at Wanda Productions.

There will also be some films out of competition such as , AUDREY HEPBURN ATTENDS HUBERT DE G’S 40 YEAR CELEBRATION PARTY by Madeleine Czigler and IRENE WILLIAMS THE QUEEN OF LINCOLN ROAD by Eric Smith (I saw this fabulous and touching documentary  a few years ago about a elderly, very stylish woman living in Miami Beach who made all her own clothes). 

My partner Vincent Gagliostro has done a short film featuring photos taken by Diane in the last 6 months during the film festival world tour using her Samsung ST50 camera.

A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival
September 25th, 26th and 27th, 2009
Passage du Désir – BETC
85-87 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, 10th arr.
Metro: Chateau D'Eau
http://www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com/

I was thrilled when The Obeserver Magazine, which is part of the British newspaper The Guardian, asked me to write an article for their travel section about what to do if you've got an hour to spare between trains in Paris.Checkout what I wrote.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/sep/20/paris-spare-hour-between-trains
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook. First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Forum Des Images

Film buffs rejoice! The Forum des Images, a film archive and movie theater, has just reopened after a three year renovation and is hosting an homage to New York City. Some great classics like All About Eve, After Hours,Mean Streets, Rear Window, Shaft, and one of my all time favorites, Annie Hall, are being shown. The new design of the The Forum des Images by Anouk Legendre now boasts a digital film archives of over 6,000 films with individual viewing stations, 5 screens with capacity from 50 to 450 people, and a modern lounge/cafe. You can even gather seven friends and watch a film together in two private viewing areas. Special events include a master class every month with a well known director(this month it's Claude Chabrol), the fifth annual Pocket Sized Film Festival(videos expressly made for mobile phones) and The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

New York in Cinema -till March 1
Les Forum des Images
Forum des Halles
Metro: Les Halles -exit Place Carree or Saint-Eustache
www.forumdesimages.net

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Cannes Film Festival 08

The Cannes film Festival 08 started this week and I thought the poster was great this year. For the latest, up to the minute dish on the films, fashion, and parties, go to www.indiewire.com

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com