Ophuls

Max Ophuls - Madame de... (The Earrings of Madame de...) - 1953 Movies

Posted by newland at Dec. 20, 2008

French master Max Ophuls’s most cherished work, "The Earrings of Madame de…" is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells her earrings, unbeknownst to her husband (Charles Boyer), in order to pay personal debts, she sets off a chain reaction, the financial and carnal consequences of which can only end in despair. Ophuls adapts Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel with virtuosic camera work so elegant and precise it’s been called the equal to that of Orson Welles.
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The best film from the three Max Ophuls classics Criterion is "Madame de…" (1953), one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most written about.

Dave Kehr, New York Times

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LOLA MONTÈS (1955, Max Ophuls, 1080p) + Extras Movies

Posted by cinefile at Feb. 25, 2010

Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.

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The Sorrow and the Pity/Le chagrin et la pitie by Marcel Ophuls (1969) Movies

Posted by leva2009 at Aug. 16, 2012

From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophuls's brilliant two part documentary combines interviews from 1969 with archival footage to explore memories of the Nazi occupation. Just how large and effective was the fabled resistance movement? Is cooperation the same thing as collaboration? And how did one's up-close-and-personal experiences with the occupation troops impact one's postwar life? These questions are probingly posed (but not all are answered) by Ophuls, who also acts as offscreen interviewer.

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Marcel Ophuls, "Mémoires d'un fils à papa" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Sept. 10, 2018

Par le réalisateur du Chagrin et la Pitié et d'Hôtel Terminus (Oscar du meilleur film documentaire en 1989).
Longtemps, Marcel Ophuls a répété qu’il n’avait pas le courage de rédiger son autobiographie. Par chance, il a finalement décidé d’écouter son ami François Truffaut qui, à la fin de sa vie, lui avait fait promettre de rédiger ses Mémoires. …

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La Ronde (1950) [The Criterion Collection #443] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 19, 2015

Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls’s delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s controversial turn-of-the-century play Reigen. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats—all are on equal footing in this multicharacter merry-go-round of love and infidelity, directed with a sweeping gaiety as knowingly frivolous as it is enchanting, and shot with Ophuls’s trademark mellifluous cinematography.

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The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) [The Criterion Collection #445] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 20, 2015

French master Max Ophuls’s most cherished work, The Earrings of Madame de… is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells her earrings, unbeknownst to her husband (Charles Boyer), in order to pay personal debts, she sets off a chain reaction, the financial and carnal consequences of which can only end in despair. Ophuls adapts Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel with virtuosic camera work so elegant and precise it’s been called the equal to that of Orson Welles.

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Lola Montes (1955) [The Criterion Collection #503] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 19, 2015

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The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Aug. 31, 2011

Hailed as one of the most moving and influential films of our time, this Oscar nominated documentary by director Marcel Ophüls has continued to garner international acclaim since its release in 1969.
An epic account of the occupation of small French industrial city Clermont-Ferrand by the Germans in World War 2, Ophüls combines interviews along with archive footage to explore the reality of occupation. Speaking to Resistance fighters, collaborators, spies, farmers, government officials, writers, artists and veterans, it is perhaps the most gripping and inspiring portrait of how ordinary people actually conducted themselves under extraordinary circumstances.

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Le plaisir (1952) [The Criterion Collection #444] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 19, 2015

Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter’s studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure. Featuring a stunning cast of French stars (including Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, and Simone Simon), Le plaisir pinpoints the cruel ironies and happy compromises of life with a charming and sophisticated breeziness.

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November Days (1991) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 11, 2010

Toward the end of "November Days," Marcel Ophuls's fine, wide-ranging documentary about the reunification of Germany, there is an uncharacteristic moment when the person being interviewed turns on his interviewer, Mr. Ophuls, and seems to stop him cold.
Until that moment, the film maker has received almost fawning respect from his subjects, especially from those former Communist Party officials who governed the German Democratic Republic and presided over its collapse. Not from Kurt Masur, though.

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