The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman (Film and Culture Series)
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:
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
Most of the these films I’d go see whenever they screen, and I can also remember vividly exactly how and where I first saw them. I also realize that in making this list I’m drawn to films that are mysterious or complicated or even ugly—and funny, of course—in a way that only movies can get to. These are not ranked, but may be grouped by association. -Some entries have two comparable...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
Yet another movie-blogger. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock Rio Bravo (1959) .. Howard Hawks The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) .. John Ford Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick The Shining (1980) .. Stanley Kubrick Heimat (1984) .. Edgar Reitz Heimat...
goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Max Ophuls's Letter from an Unknown Woman reminds us that "melodrama" isn't a bad word, and that "tearjerkers" and "chick flicks" and "women's pictures" can be great art. And that I'm not such a cynic that I don't get misty-eyed...
goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Max Ophuls's Letter from an Unknown Woman reminds us that "melodrama" isn't a bad word, and that "tearjerkers" and "chick flicks" and "women's pictures" can be great art. And that I'm not such a cynic that I don't get misty-eyed...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
I'll leave the canon to others and focus on the 50 films I can't live without. But first, a one-line summary about myself: A film critic and features editor for Variety (and before that, a freelance writer to such publications as The Miami Herald, Creative Screenwriting and Premiere), Peter Debruge grew up not being allowed to watch TV or movies and has spent the decades since making up for lost time,...
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