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by Ryland Walker Knight Max Ophuls' final film, the legendary Lola Montes , will grace Bay Area screens starting November 19th: at San Francisco's Castro Theatre, at San Rafael's Smith Rafael and at Berkeley's Rialto Elmwood. I saw it at the Castro. I cannot stress the importance of size enough. On such a grand scale as the Castro offers, all those screens Ophuls shoots through—like curtains, gates,...
I love the UW Cinematheque , and last night we saw another classic, Le Plaisir by Max Ophuls. That gorgeous curtain rose creakily ("We're going to have that fixed," said Tom Yoshikami, who introduced the showing). The silver screen came alive, and we were transported to a magical world of sparkling black and white imagery (a print flown in from France) and fluid cinematography that seemed all the more...
Letter From An Unknown Woman1:55am Tuesday, 18 Nov 2008 Repeat CC G Stefan Brand receives a letter from an unknown woman who has a lifelong passion for him. CAST: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan DIR: Max Ophüls (1948)
"This is a story about restoring a film that didn't exist," Tom Burton, vice president of digital services at Technicolor, says of his work on Max Ophüls' opulent 1955 drama "Lola Montès." That is not much of an exaggeration. When the restored "Lola Montès,"...
Tales of the legendary lover and adventurer Lola Montez have inspired many artists, including film-maker Max Ophüls - but it is Lola herself, an Irish woman on the run from scandal, who should take the creative credit, writes Fiona McCann
In mid-January earlier this year Stefan Drössler, the Director of the Munich Film Museum, delivered a lecture co-presented by Pacific Film Archive and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco on the restoration of the German premiere version of Max Ophüls’ Lola Montès ; a print acquired by PFA from a private collection with help from Drössler and the Munich Film Museum. Among the scope of Drössler’s many...
This one’s for you, Criterion fans. It’s a French-language black and white extravaganza from the German-born master of subtle romance and outlandish tracking shots, Max Ophüls. Following up on the director’s previous international smash, the episodic “La Ronde,” “Le Plaisir” is an adaptation of three tales by France’s master of the short story, Guy [...]
One of the highlights of my early years, teens, into twenties, was working at the legendary Brattle Theatre, in Harvard Square . The Brattle made it's mark, in the 1950's, bringing in the films of Ingmar Bergman , and later, the French New Wave . And, of course, its' Bogart Festivals . It opened a whole new world for me, movies from all over the world, new and old, comedies and dramas. With friends,...
Mocked on initial release and long unavailable, Max Ophüls' wide-screen spectacle "Lola Montès" returns in a lustrous restoration. So what's the big deal?
Lola Montès Running time 110 minutes Written by Annette Wademant, Max Ophüls and Jacques Natanson Directed by Max Ophüls Starring Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov Max Ophüls’ Lola Montès , from a screenplay (in French, German and English with English subtitles) by Annette Wademant, Max Ophüls and Jacques Natanson, is based (at least in the opening credits) on a novel by Cécil Saint-Laurent. But since...
Just over 50 years after his death, Max Ophuls may well be having his moment. Despite the continued unavailability of his Hollywood films (including, most frustratingly, Letter from an Unknown Woman), this year has seen the DVD releases of...
The exacting and sumptuous Cinémathèque Française restoration of “Lola Montès,” Max Ophüls’s last film, from 1955 (opening at Film Forum on Oct. 10), recovers not just the movie’s look but also its meaning. The romantic costume drama presents a great nineteenth-century femme fatale, a faux-Spanish danseuse and gold . . .
