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Lola Montès DVD Review

By Andy Beta on 11:00 AM on February 16, 2010

Release Date: Feb. 16 Director: Max Ophuls Writers: MaxOphuls, Cécil Saint-Laurent, Annette Wademant Cinematographers: Christian Matras Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov Studio/Run Time: Criterion, 115 mins. Way back in the early 2000s, the films of German-born, Paris-based director Max Ophuls languished out of print. While the French nouvelle vague and its insouciant modernity, guns, dames and jittery jump cuts remained much feted, discussed and repackaged, Ophuls and his fin de siècle Europe, aristocratic mores, women on the verge of nervous breakdowns and loooooong tracking shots fell out of sight. He might’ve remained in darkness were it not for the...  read more

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The Last Days Of Disco

By Andy Beta on 4:30 PM on September 3, 2009

Near the end of this woefully ahistorical 1998 comedy about...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Science Is Fiction - The Films of Jean Painleve

By Sean Gandert on 2:07 PM on April 30, 2009

One of the big clichés in pretty much any sort of media criticism is to say that a work is “unclassifiable”...  read more

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The Exterminating Angel/Simon of the Desert

By Steve Dollar on 10:18 AM on February 27, 2009

Decades before Lost or even The Twilight Zone...  read more

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