Babar and Father Christmas’s House/ Babar et la Maison du Père Noël – Jean de Brunhoff

Here is a seasonal post. Christmas time is for children and children’s stories. It is the perfect moment to present the simple and naive but very effective spatial machinery Jean de Brunhoff imagines when he relates the discovery of the house of Father Christmas by Babar in the album Babar and Father Christmas(1941). It illustrates…

Metropolis : at the Origin of Modern Urban Imagination / A la source de l’imaginaire urbain moderne

We announced here the  Cinematheque Française exhibition  from October 19, 2011 to January 29, 2012 about  Metropolis, the Fritz Lang’s film . On this occasion, the new version of the film, restored in 2010, will be shown to the public. This version  is 150 minutes long with the 30 minutes extra discovered in Buenos Aires in…