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UK DVD in September

posted 18 years ago by Gordon-M
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http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searchtype=r2title&searchstring=Max+Ophuls&page=search&pa=search&go.x=42&go.y=5

The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
- Video essay by film historian Tag Gallagher
- 'Working with Max Ophuls': by film director Alain Jessua

Le Plaisir (1952)
- Introduction by film director Todd Haynes
- 'Les Chemins du Plaisir': documentary feature
- 'Moments from Le Plaisir': a photographic short story
- 'From script to screen': featurette

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Video essay by film historian Tag Gallagher

The Reckless Moment (1949)
- Introduction by film director Todd Haynes
- Commentary by Lutz Bacher, author of `Max Ophuls in The Hollywood Studios'

All released on 18th September.

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

[–] Goldmund1710 18 years ago

Fantastic!!!!!

[–] Gordon-M 18 years ago

Yes, fantastic news!

I love your favourite films list on your profile! Even Cronenberg's, Videodrome, which is one of my great loves! And Altman's, McCabe and Mrs Miller, which is one of the great achievements in American Cinema. Beatty's soliloquy is extraordinary - the words of all men who have tried in vain, but failed. Hamlet said it All, but there are footnotes!

Ophüls was one of the first to realise that the camera was the eye and that the eye can see All!

liron_zu, Hail to you, o' brilliant spirit!

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

[–] Goldmund1710 18 years ago

I can't wait to see Ophuls' best films, I've only seen The Reckless Moment and La Ronde.