Montmartre in the movies

Studio 28 exterior on 29 Dec 2013

Studio 28 interior

Studio 28 (10 rue Tholozé), founded in 1928, decorated by Jean Cocteau, house of the infamous premiere of Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'or, is still going strong as an art et essai cinema. "La salle des chefs d'oeuvres, le chef d'oeuvre des salles" (Jean Cocteau).

Samples of the hundreds of Montmartre films that have been shot on location and recreated in studios:

Montmartre / Die Flamme (Ernst Lubitsch, 1923) (studio reconstruction)
Le Fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (René Clair, 1925)
Moulin Rouge (E. A. Dupont, 1928) (studio reconstruction)
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / L'Assassin habite... au 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1942)
Garou Garou le Passe-muraille (Jean Boyer, 1951)
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) (studio reconstruction)
Moulin Rouge (John Huston, 1952)
French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1954)
Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954)
La Traversée de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara, 1956)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
The 400 Blows / Les quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
Boulevard (Julien Duvivier, 1960)
Stolen Kisses / Baisers volés (François Truffaut, 1968)
Dernier domicile connu (José Giovanni, 1970)
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Love on the Run / L'Amour en fuite (François Truffaut, 1979)
Les Rendez-vous en Paris (Éric Rohmer, 1995)
Everybody Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)
Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006)
Paris je t'aime: Montmartre episode directed by Bruno Podalydès (2006)
La Vie en rose / La Môme (Olivier Dahan, 2007)
La Rafle (Roselyne Bosch, 2010)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)

In 1926 Bernard Natan and Rapid Films moved to 6 rue Francoeur. In 1929, Natan merged with Pathé, and he built two studios at rue Francoeur. Film production there was discontinued in 1990. The former Pathé Montmartre studios are since 1999 the house of the legendary French state film school La Femis (Fondation européenne des métiers de l'image et du son).