Max.Ophuls.Lola.Montes.1955.DVDR.2DiSC.D1.DVD9.CRiTERiON-503.nfo
LOLA MONTES (1955)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048308/
User Rating: 7.3/10 1,238 votes
http://www.amazon.com/Montes-Criterion-Collection-Martine-Carol/dp/B002XUL6QC/
http://www.dvdtown.com/review/lola-montes-the-criterion-collection/dvd/7786
Criterion Collection # 503
DVD RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 2010
http://www.criterion.com/films/938
Director: Max Ophuls
Description
----------------
Lola Montes 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 Montes'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 Montes is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.
Ophuls was deeply hurt by the poor reception of "Lola Montes" as well as its manhandling by studio hacks, and it turned out to be his final film. Ophuls died in 1957 from heart disease and wouldn't live to see the film restored both physically and critically.
Andrew Sarris famously proclaimed "Lola Montes" to be "the greatest film ever made." That's a difficult position to defend, but it's certainly one of Ophuls' finest moments. And thanks to an extensive, decades-long restoration effort it has been preserved for new generations. Unlike the Lola of the film, "Lola Montes" has been set free to bask in well-deserved glory forever.
READ:
Loving Lola
by Gary Giddins
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1371
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 6.45 + 3.91 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (main feature): 115 minutes
Type: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1 | Anamorphic Widescreen
Sound (main feature): English DD3.0 (to preserve original quality of 4-track magnetic stereo, an early surround sound technology then only available with CinemaScope).
Subtitles: optional English
DISC FEATURES:
# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White.
# 'Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner,' a 1965 episode of the French television program Cineastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of Ophuls's collaborators.
# Max by Marcel, a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montes.
# Silent footage of actress Martine Carol briefly demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles in Lola Montes.
# Theatrical rerelease trailer from Rialto Pictures.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.
Posted in: a.b.dvd.criterion
Want more? Ask nicely in the group.
If you like it -- support Criterion and buy as many as you can.
|
|