The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman (Film and Culture Series)
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Max Ophüls' classic film will be released on the Blu-ray format by Criterion in February. The Criterion Collection has announced 'Lola Montès' starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov is slated for Blu-ray...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The St. Louis International Film Festival has kept me busy, so I'm just now getting around to posting the February Criterion additions, which were announced on Friday. Through IFC, Steve McQueen's Hunger will make its way to DVD and Blu-ray; Max Ophüls' Lola Montès will be upgraded from the old (lousy) Fox Lorber disc on DVD and Blu-ray; Janus Films' first-run release of Götz Spielmann's...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Criterion's February announcements include, at long last, a DVD of Leo McCarey's masterpiece Make Way For Tomorrow , as well as a DVD and Blu-Ray of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes. The McCarey disc doesn't have as many special features as it deserves, though in this case I'm OK with Peter Bogdanovich being interviewed, since he was one of the few people who ever interviewed McCarey. And any McCarey-centric...
Soho the Dog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Today's bit of tangential Beethoven history: the reason Franz Liszt wasn't invited back for the 1870 Beethoven centennial festivities in Beethoven's birthplace of Bonn. Back in the 1840s, when the city's plans for a Beethoven monument looked as if they might falter because of insufficient funds, Liszt stepped in, pledging his talents and enough of his then-considerable concert receipts to support the...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Set in a trendy Hollywood restaurant, “La Ronde de Lunch” Peter Lefcourt’s sunny send-up of show business insiders, can be as piquant as the exotic menu offerings. However, although certainly entertaining, the play only occasional reaches the levels of howling...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
From Ophuls’ DIVINE. Here’s a good bit from the Max Ophuls interview featured at the back of Faber’s 1974 book Masterworks of the French Cinema. I figured not everybody can get their hands on this, and it may not be worth buying the book secondhand just for this bit. The screenplays which make up the bulk of [...]
mosses from an old manse (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
Max Ophuls The Earrings of Madame de… on TCM tonight...Evanescence is an integral part of cinema, and no other director captured it as lyrically and yet as savagely as Ophüls. His tracking, dollying, gliding camera was never more mellifluous, or his visualization of life's inexorable flow more tangible, than in The Earrings of Madame de…: The dissolving ballroom twirls between the...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
PARIS (MARKET WIRE) Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453, NYSE:TMS), a worldwide leader of services to content creators, today announced the nomination of Michel Vaquin as Chairman of the Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Cinema St. Louis and Washington University's Program in Film and Media Studies are presenting their first French Film Festival this coming weekend, 28-30 August. Screening this year are Rialto's restored prints of Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. and Max Ophüls' Lola Montès , as well as a trio of contemporary films: Phlippe Ramos' Captain Ahab [ Capitaine Achab ], with Denis Lavant, Jacques...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
By Dan Callahan [ For a big screen dose of Mason, be sure to check out the Film Forum Monday night series Mason Most Noir , now running through September 14th. ] In Sheridan Morley’s biography of James Mason, practically all of his co-stars described him as a quietly unhappy man, restless, ill at ease, indecisive, a skittish pacifist, and a classic loner. He could be driven to physical violence...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Seattle Art Museum this Tuesday begins selling tickets for the hottest series in town: "Bad and Dangerous: The Film Noir Cycle" begins Oct. 1 with Max Ophüls' "The Reckless Moment" and continues through Dec. 10 with 10 tales of dark nights and lost souls.
Blotting paper (Free subscription) | 02/08/2009
One of the benefits (or not) of living in the twenty-first century is how politically conscious, hyper -ism aware you are. Even when you are watching cinema as masterful as Ophül’s or Renoir’s, you find yourself uncomfortable with certain scenes. For example, the scene in which the woman resists the man’s advances until he forces [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
DVD Video Review: Lola Montès was Max Ophuls's final film and an epic production now fully restored. Gary Couzens reviews Second Sight's DVD.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Max Ophüls; Martine Carol. Rating:
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