mfunk9786 wrote:I guess the real question is whether it'll be an Eclipse set or a full-fledged Criterion set in the vein of 4 by Agnes Varda or Six Moral Tales.
mfunk9786 wrote:I guess the real question is whether it'll be an Eclipse set or a full-fledged Criterion set in the vein of 4 by Agnes Varda or Six Moral Tales.
No way it's an Eclipse set. Ophuls isn't in the collection yet.
mfunk9786 wrote:I guess the real question is whether it'll be an Eclipse set or a full-fledged Criterion set in the vein of 4 by Agnes Varda or Six Moral Tales.
justeleblanc wrote:I'm predicting a four-film set, lotsa special features, digipaks, and artwork similar to Fassbinder's BRD trilogy.
An Ophuls Box set up to that standard would be an earth shattering event of happiness!
I originally just saw the mask and it reminded me of a picture of Rivette on the set of Out 1. But as soon as I saw "and not just earrings" I knew what it really was. Damn it, Ophuls.
PLease let it NOT have Lola Montes and pls let it have Liebelei instead as an extra to the expected trilogy. Liebelei is so fucking beautiful it hurts.
mrschroeder1982 wrote:Are we allowed to discuss the contest here? Because if so, I've got two of the three mentioned in this month's contest. Just can't find the third...
mrschroeder1982 wrote:Are we allowed to discuss the contest here? Because if so, I've got two of the three mentioned in this month's contest. Just can't find the third...
HerrSchreck wrote:PLease let it NOT have Lola Montes and pls let it have Liebelei instead as an extra to the expected trilogy. Liebelei is so fucking beautiful it hurts.
Why would you NOT want Lola Montes when there is no acceptable DVD of it?
The tidiest box would be the late French films - La Ronde through Lola - which would be pretty wonderful. Much as I'd love to see some of his MIA Hollywood work or even earlier stuff (Liebelei by all means), including them would turn this into a "some Ophuls titles we could get ahold of" box. Not that they haven't done this before!
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Narshty wrote:This newsletter has the most embarrassing Top Ten comments yet.
Agreed -- what a pretentious windbag. I read an interview with him a few months ago (I think it was linked on Jim Emerson's blog) and he showed the same inability to praise movies he liked without insulting others.
Whatever your personal preference, Lola Montes is widely considered one of the most important and groundbreaking French films of the 50s (in 1964, a Cahiers poll named it the second best French film since the Liberation) and belongs in any Ophuls Masterworks box. Sarris certainly has no cause for embarrassment.
to be fair, didn't the Italian gov't reopen Paso's case because it is believed that the young prostitute was just a pawn in a neo-fascist assassination plot?
miless wrote:to be fair, didn't the Italian gov't reopen Paso's case because it is believed that the young prostitute was just a pawn in a neo-fascist assassination plot?
That settles it: we need a Pasolini biopic by Oliver Stone.
