Paris, France: Outdoor Movies at the 'Cinema au Claire de Lune', or 'Moonlight Cinema'

Each August, Cinéma au clair de lune sets up its giant screen at famous locations across Paris, offering free outdoor screenings of classic and contemporary films with Paris as their subject or setting. The itinerant festival has run for seven years, choosing a different neighborhood each season so audiences can see the city through a filmmaker's eyes.

In its 2008 edition, the festival participated in the European Cultural Season and expanded its scope for the first time to a dozen or so European capitals -- films by Luigi Comencini, Milos Forman, Pedro Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, and others transporting Parisian audiences to Rome, Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Prague, and Vienna. Presented by the Forum des images, screenings are free and open to the public.