Côte Ouest

Seen from the tail camera on the A380.

Tour Eiffel, 14 Juillet

Fireworks viewed from the École Militaire on July 14.

Défilé militaire du 14 juillet

3 C160NGs flying over the Arc de Triumphe.

A KC-135FR followed by a Rafale and three Mirage 2000s.

A bunch of Alpha Jets.

An ERC 90.

A Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé.

A Véhicule Blindé Léger.

The Leclerc tanks had famous French battles stenciled on their turrets.

A special convoy of Renault TRM 700-100 tank transporters carrying Leclerc tanks and other armored vehicles.

À l'aube

I'm not usually up this early.

Le Mont Saint Michel Vous Regarde

View of Mont Saint Michel from Cancale.

Sainte-Mère-Église

A dummy paratrooper hanging from the church in Sainte-Mère-Église.

Pointe du Hoc

Pointe du Hoc, between Omaha and Utah beaches. I wanted to see this spot because I watched The Longest Day over and over as a kid.

Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach. Photos by Melody.

Utah Beach

Photo by Melody.

À la compagne

Now I understand the urge to flee Paris to the countryside when the city gets hot.

At the movies

Melody convinced me when we first moved here to buy an UGC Illimité card, which allows you to watch an unlimited number of movies at most movie theaters in Paris for a yearly fee of about 240 euros. At 8 euros a movie, we would need to watch 30 movies to make the card worthwhile, and I think we accomplished that in our first couple of months here. Most awesomely, there was a complete Rohmer series at La Filmotheque in August, so we saw all the subtitled versions they showed:

-Le Genou de Claire
-Pauline à la plage
-L'Amour l'après-midi
-La Femme de l'aviateur
-Les Nuits de la pleine lune
-Le Rayon vert
-L'Ami de mon amie
-Conte de printemps
-Conte d'été

We just watched Barry Lyndon at La Filmo as part of their Kubrick series. I had seen BL on video, but watching a projection of it made it clear that it is the most beautiful looking movie I've ever seen.



We also recently saw Sailor et Lula (Wild at Heart) at Le Champo, down the street from La Filmotheque.



It seems there is always some Lynch playing somewhere in town, always some Hitchcock, always some film noir, and always some westerns. So, for example, we saw To Catch a Thief, Lifeboat, and Strangers on a Train at La Filmo, Melody saw Kiss Me Deadly there too, and I was giddy watching The Wild Bunch at Action Christine and Pat Garret and Billy the Kid at La Filmo.

Some others I can remember:

-Rio Bravo (La Filmo)
-Les Felins (La Filmo)
-An Affair to Remember (La Filmo)
-Now Voyager (Action Christine)
-The American Friend (La Filmo)
-Badlands (La Filmo)
-Thin Red Line (La Filmo)
-The New World (La Filmo)
-Bad Lieutenant (La Filmo) (this was part of a Harvey Keitel series!)
-Klute (La Filmo)
-Manhunt (La Filmo)
-Ninotchka (La Filmo)
-Hombre (La Filmo)
-Minuit à Paris (UGC Danton, which appears in the opening montage)
-You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Mk2 Quai de la Seine)
-Source Code (don't remember where)
-Paths of Glory (Le Champo)
-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (La Filmo)
-Black Swan (Mk2 Quai de la Loire)
-King's Speech (Mk2 Quai de la Seine)
-The Fighter (somewhere on the Champs-Élysées)
-The Social Network (Mk2 Quai de la Seine)
-Reservoir Dogs (La Filmo) (also part of the Keitel series)
-Crimes and Misdemeanors (La Filmo)
-Femme Fatale (La Filmo)
-Charade (La Filmo)
-Breakfast at Tiffany's (La Filmo)
-An American in Paris (La Filmo)