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I've been watching several Ophül's films, inclunding two forgotten: Sans lendemain is a totally and beautiful masterpiece. Is it going to be restored and released on DVD in any country? It is absolute gorgeous, I saw a print dubbed into Italian, but, who cares? I mean, this film is a must, even in the awful VHSrip I get. It has got that 1938-39 pre war French pesimism as the Carné's or La regle du jeu have. His vision of Paris is romantic (and sad), love and destiny are the protagonist (as always).

By the opposite, The exile is a very interesting film, 100% Ophulsian with his camera movements but the Hollywood stars touch and the story are not as good as in his other American movies.

About Madame de.. and Le plaisir is all written. Perfect, I watched both like 15 years ago and it was a plaisure to rediscover them. Danielle Darrieux in two scenes, closing the door ans repeating "Je ne vous aimez pas" to Vittorio, and walking at beach with her gaze and heart broken, made my blood stop.

I have to rewacth De Mayerling to Sarajevo, Letter from an unknown woman, Lola and Lachender erbe again this summer.

¡Viva Ophüls!

rohmerin wrote:I've been watching several Ophül's films, inclunding two forgotten: Sans lendemain is a totally and beautiful masterpiece. Is it going to be restored and released on DVD in any country?

As announced in another thread: http://www.1kult.com/2010/09/30/gaumont-line-up/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just received my copy of Liebelei / Lola Montes from Edition Filmmuseum. Liebelei has english subs as does the 90 min doc on MO.
Lola Montes has english subs on the feature only. None on the audio only extras and German subs only on the comparative study of Lola when french versions are shown (Mostly in split screen)

Surprising that The Reckless Moment has yet to be released on bluray. Probably my favorite of his.

Indicator is about to rectify that based on their last clue...

Can anyone confirm please (from actual discs or at least sleeves) whether the new Gaumont Blu-rays of Sens lendemain, Yoshiwara and De Mayerling a Sarajevo have English subs? Amazon.fr suggests not but of course their listings are often wrong or incomplete.

Jonathan S wrote: Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:02 am Can anyone confirm please (from actual discs or at least sleeves) whether the new Gaumont Blu-rays of Sens lendemain, Yoshiwara and De Mayerling a Sarajevo have English subs? Amazon.fr suggests not but of course their listings are often wrong or incomplete.

Looking at them now and all 3 only have French HOH subs

Thanks for checking - that's sad as I can't see these being released in the UK. French cinema of the 1930s & early 1940s now seems to be regarded as unprofitable. Maybe a Criterion Eclipse set is the best chance as I don't think these films ever had a commercial English-subbed release even on DVD.

German-language essay on music in Liebelei - for rare info about the film´s running times, see note 17:
https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/d ... sequence=3

Lachende Erben gets a bluray and dvd release in Germany:
http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/news/weit ... er-auf-dvd

A Max Ophuls issue of the French film magazine 1895:
https://journals.openedition.org/1895/2

Rare 35mm screening of La signora di tutti at MoMA this Halloween.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:31 am Rare 35mm screening of La signora di tutti at MoMA this Halloween.

This was great (as were the preceding shorts), and even the Eureka/MoC DVD is now out-of-print, so I highly recommend catching this if you can - there's one more screening in a bigger theater on Friday Nov. 12. It's a print from MoMA's own collection and though it has some damage, it's otherwise in pretty good shape.

I haven't read the book so I can't say how many changes Ophüls and Wilhelm (both new to the Italian film industry) brought to the Italian source material, but the film does look forward to the early modernist masterworks by Rossellini and Antonioni, so much I wondered if there were other examples of how these ideas may have been very prevalent in Italian cinema before they were developed further later on (and famously explored elsewhere even later). The filmmaking alone is especially remarkable on a technical level considering that it was released in 1934, and it's bittersweet that Ophüls final, greater film would have many narrative similarities as this one.

domino harvey wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:17 am

Yojimbo wrote:'Caught' is the only Ophuls I've seen which I ws underwhelmed by, although given that so many people disagree with me on that and at least place it on a par with 'Reckless Moment' makes me think I should give it another look.

Caught is the worst film ever made by a great director

This is a certified Domino Harvey Classic line but I revisited the film and liked it a lot more than I apparently used to. None of the things which once bothered me still do, though I don’t think the film works overall and the schizo vacillations in the plotting make it hard to grab onto anything. But it’s def not worth remembering enough to call it the worst anything of anyone

...especially not when stuff like My Blueberry Nights is out there...

The one Ophuls I remember not being very impressed by was The Exile--which was a serviceable entertainment but not something the director seems to have had his heart in.

pistolwink wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:07 pm ...especially not when stuff like My Blueberry Nights is out there...

You beat me to it! (but I was going to add Beyond The Clouds & Stealing Beauty ), but decided against posting less the thread turn into a worst film by an otherwise outstanding director discussion.

pistolwink wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:07 pm ...especially not when stuff like My Blueberry Nights is out there...

I love this one. I'm also under the impression that WKW doesn't care enough about it to make Lucas level changes and thank god!