"We'll always have Paris": Bogie got it right, at least when it comes to this year's Oscar nominations.

While many critics note the nostalgia evinced in "Hugo" and "The Artist" for the innocence of early cinema, they overlook how these films, along with two other nominees, "Midnight in Paris" and "A Cat in Paris," also evoke nostalgia for a certain idea of Paris.




That this particular Paris is so fashionable in an age of political unrest and economic upheaval would not have surprised the man who, more or less single-handedly, created the stage setting for the Paris we will always have.


This year marks the 160th anniversary of the event that transformed Paris into the city that frames so many of this year's Oscar nominees. ...

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