Get out of the picture house and into the heart of Paris to toast the best of the country's moviemaking this summer.

From July 15th to August 17th the Parc de la Villette plays host to its annual Cinema en Plein Air event as an enormous screen is erected in the Prairie du Triangle.

The title of this year's film festival is "Ava, Rita, Gina…les etoiles ne meurent jamais" (movie stars never die).

A total of 36 films along this theme will be shown over the course of a month in their original versions.

These include Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, while Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall show off their sizzling sexual chemistry in To Have And Have Not.

For retro classics, arthouse and film noir from comfier seats, top cinemas in the capital include Le Champo or floating barge La Peniche, which is moored in the La Villette canal basin throughout summer and also holds movie workshops.