As France's oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic
culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumiere brothers shot
many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s,
Marseilles was referred to as 'the French Los Angeles'. This volume
showcases Marseilles's diversity as articulated onscreen: from the
winding streets of the Panier to the Old Port's noisy markets, from
the bustling Canebiere to the dockyards of the Grand Port Maritime,
from the cliffs of Provencal encircling the city to sun-drenched
calanques leading to the dazzling cerulean sea. Marseilles,
France's oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating
back to the 1890s when the Lumiere brothers shot many films there.
Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was
referred to as 'the French Los Angeles'. World Film Locations:
Marseilles features maps of film scenes, high quality screengrabs,
and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by
original texts penned by leading international film scholars and
critics. Essays treat Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy, firmly
ensconced within the French collective unconscious; cinematic
adaptations of the Marseillais novelist Jean-Claude Izzo; onscreen
appearances of the Old Port and the Canebiere, and immigrants in
Marseilles films. Scene reviews are selected from 46 films,
including oeuvres by acclaimed directors such as Jacques Audiard,
Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson's Taxi franchise, Bertrand Blier,
Richard Curtis, Jacques Demy, Jean Epstein, John Frankenheimer,
William Friedkin, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Jewison, Joshua Logan,
Jean-Pierre Melville, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean
Renoir, Ridley Scott, and Berlin School auteur Angela Schanelac.
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