World Film Locations: Marseilles

As Frances oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumire 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 Marseilless diversity as articulated onscreen: from the winding streets of the Panier to the Old Ports noisy markets, from the bustling Canebire to the dockyards of the Grand Port Maritime, from the cliffs of Provenal encircling the city to sun-drenched calanques leading to the dazzling cerulean sea. Marseilles, Frances oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumire 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 Pagnols 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 Canebire, and immigrants in Marseilles films. Scene reviews are selected from 46 films, including uvres by acclaimed directors such as Jacques Audiard, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Bessons Taxi franchise, Bertrand Blier, Richard Curtis, Jacques Demy, Jean Epstein, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Jewison, Joshua Logan, Jean-Pierre Melville, Lzl Moholy-Nagy, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean Renoir, Ridley Scott, and Berlin School auteur Angela Schanelac.