17/10/2002 - François Truffaut was a regular. But the cinema's now closed and will be converted into a cosmetics supermarket. Can anyone save the Parisian cinema, a cult gathering-place in the 50s?

The Brady is no more. French director Jean-Pierre Mocky, who owned and had managed the cinema since 1994, published the announcement of the death of this Parisian film theatre in last Tuesday’s edition of French daily, « Le Monde ».
Situated at number 39 of Boulevard de Strasbourg, the Brady was a cult meeting place for fans of the fantasy films of the fifties and one of its most assiduous clients was François Truffaut. The Brady is to be converted into a cosmetics supermarket.
Jean-Pierre Mocky stopped at nothing in his attempts to save the cinema, even indebting himself to the tune of Euros 60,000. He repeatedly asked both government authorities and French professional film organisations for help - to no avail. The Brady was not officially designated as being an “Art and Arthouse Cinema” since it screened French-language versions of films, and it finally fell victim to insurmountable financial difficulties. Jean-Pierre Mocky launched a violent verbal attack at the French minister for culture, the Centre national de la Cinématographie and the Town Hall of Paris for their failure to support him in this initiative, and he announced his intention to buy another cinema and continue his work as an independent exhibitor.

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(Translated from French)