After forty years, this rare and highly rated issue has been re-issued at last. Although we aimed for an exact replica of the original texts, images and page layout, this is not a facsimile edition. The...
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Fiona Tan’s balloon flight
In the morning of January 14, 2000, Dutch artist Fiona Tan (b. Pekan Baru, Indonesia, 1966) gathered fifty large red helium-filled balloons, affixed their strings to a harness and was briefly lifted...
Le Farceur in rue Piat
Roland-François Lack of The Cine-Tourist writes -- "In Philippe de Broca's Le Farceur (1960), which is all over Paris, there is one brief shot of the carrefour Piat."...
Malambars and Carambars
Ketty Belhassen, a former resident of 16 rue Vilin, recalls going up the stairs at the end of the street and frequenting the Boulangerie-Pâtisserie -- the same one as visited by Pascal in Le Ballon rouge...
The Lamorisses visit London
In the summer of 1957 the Lamorisse family visited London, England. During a ceremony at the French Institute in South Kensington, Albert Lamorisse was presented with the British Film Academy Special ...
The Red Balloon in London
David Rayner writes -- "Here in the UK, The Red Balloon was given the honour of being chosen, along with The Battle of the River Plate, to be shown at The Royal Film Performance premiere in December,...
Pascal’s mother
Albert Lamorisse’s film productions were always more or less family affairs. His wife, Jeanne Claude Duparc, was also his script girl and assistant director. The films were conceived at the kitchen...
Balloonology 1: Chez Hubert
[solved] Ever since I started studying the many Red Balloon locations systematically (2007) I have been intrigued by the location of the restaurant called CHEZ HUBERT. It is one of the places Pascal...
Naviguez à travers FURORE #21!
Naviguez à travers toutes les pages de Furore #21 on Vimeo! ...
Histoire d’un poisson rouge
Teyo Peperkamp writes: "Do you know Histoire d'un Poisson Rouge? I've never seen this film, but judging by the photographs in this EP booklet I am sure it must be a beautiful movie! Hopefully it will ...
Histoire d’un poisson rouge
Teyo Peperkamp writes: "Do you know Histoire d'un Poisson Rouge? I've never seen this film, but judging by the photographs in this EP booklet I am sure it must be a beautiful movie! Hopefully it will ...
Narrowest
Top: Pascal Lamorisse takes his red balloon into one of the narrowest alleys of Paris in Le Ballon rouge. Bottom: The same alley in Jacques Dupont's 1960 film Les Distractions. (With thanks to Roland-François...
Narrowest
Top: Pascal Lamorisse takes his red balloon into one of the narrowest alleys of Paris in Le Ballon rouge. Bottom: The same alley in Jacques Dupont's 1960 film Les Distractions. (With thanks to Roland-François...
Narrower and narrower
In the fall of 1955 Pascal Lamorisse was seen running down a narrow alleyway trying to escape from a band of "voyous". As we point out in Furore (p. 70), this scene was shot in one of the two narrowest...
Narrower and narrower
In the fall of 1955 Pascal Lamorisse was seen running down a narrow alleyway trying to escape from a band of "voyous". As we point out in Furore (p. 70), this scene was shot in one of the two narrowest...
Bookstore ad
C.J. Aarts found this advertisement for the Red Balloon book by the "Foreign Department" of Librairie Hachette in "Nieuwsblad voor de Boekhandel", Vol. 124 (1957) nr 4 (January 24, 1957), p. 76....