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Paris is filled with Parisiens
Fans greet their idol, "Wild Man" Moore
Louis Armstrong
Parisiens who play a read more
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 1, 2019
I’m the first to admit I’m no jazz connoisseur but I dig it. In this age that we now live in of shuffling and song roulette — where the single has surged passed a cohesive album in terms of singular importance — there has been some small amount of education going on for me. read more
Paris Blues
Directed by Martin Ritt
Written by Jack Sher, Irene Kamp, and Walter Bernstein; adapted by Lulla Rosenfeld from a novel by Harold Flender
1961/USA
Pennebaker Productions/Diane Productions/Jason Films/Monica Corp./Monmouth
First viewing/You Tube Part romance, part travelogue, and part read more
It’d be easily to blame Paris Blues’s lack of success on the screenplay. With three credited screenwriters and another with the adaptation, there’s literally not enough going on the film to keep it going for the ninety-eight minute runtime. There’s filler, whether it’s a jazz number or a scenic read more
Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are a couple of American musicians living in Paris. They each have their own reasons for living there instead of America. In Paris, Eddie doesn’t face the kind of discrimination he would in America and Ram thinks living there is good read more
