The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini. It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
The Centre Pompidou served as a primary filming location for the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, specifically representing the interior of Hugo Drax’s hi-tech California space-shuttle complex. The 5th floor, including the long glass tube (escalator) and Dr. Holly Goodhead’s office, was used for these scenes. The high-tech, exposed-pipe aesthetic of the building matched the futuristic, industrial look required for the film’s space center.
The Centre Pompidou served as a key filming location for the TV special Alice Cooper in Paris (1982), specifically featuring a performance of “Generation Landslide ’81”. The iconic, inside-out architecture of the museum provided a unique, industrial backdrop for the rock performance.
MOONRAKER (1979)
Centre Pompidou (2018)
Moonraker
Moonraker is a 1979 spy-fi film, the eleventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star…
Abbesses Metro Station
Abbesses is a famous, historic Paris Métro station on Line 12 in Montmartre, renowned as the deepest station in the network at roughly 36 meters below ground.
Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris are most closely associated with "As Above, So Below" (2014). The location also appears in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" (2023–).
Bistrot La Renaissance
Bistrot La Renaissance is in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Le Mouton enragé (1974), Le Sang des autres (1984), My New Partner (1984) and Animal (2005).
Pont d’Iéna Stairs
Pont d’Iéna Stairs appears in A View to a Kill (1985). The stairway is used as part of one of the film’s best-known Paris action sequences.
Statue of Liberty in Paris
Statue of Liberty in Paris appears in Frantic (1988), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Lost in Paris (2016), and The Fall (2006).
Deauville Beach Cabins
The Deauville beach cabins have appeared in both A Man and a Woman and Sentimental Value.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Mont-Saint-Michel has appeared in films including Mindwalk, Armageddon and To the Wonder, and it is also used in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is best known on screen from Beautiful Thing, where it is disguised as The Anchor. It is also used in The List of Adrian Messenger.
Guildford Cathedral
Guildford Cathedral is best known as a filming location from The Omen. The cathedral has also appeared in productions such as The Sandman and The Witcher.