At the end of August, I embarked on a cinephilic pilgrimage to Paris with the intention of visiting as many theatres and locations relevant to the history of cinema and my own personal growth as a film studies student. Equipped with a copy of Pariscope – a weekly magazine featuring screening times and locations – and Richard Brody’s Everything is Cinema: The working life of Jean-Luc Godard my goal was to experience a specifically Parisian cinephilic moment capable of mimicking the testimonies of individual directors, critics and film theorists I had come to admire. In Brody’s book, I had read that Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut regularly attended screenings at the Cinema Mac-Mahon and would often conclude their evening with a trip to a nearby cigar shop and critical discussion on their walk home.
