Lola Montès
2009
Blu-ray
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604652338
Edition: Blu Ray disc.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 19 cm).
- digital optical
- videodisc
- Blu-ray
- video file Blu-ray
- polychrome
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR
Notes:
- Based on the novel by Cécil Saint-Laurent.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
- Special features: Disc one -- Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White ; theatrical re-release trailer from Rialto Pictures. Disc two -- "Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner" - a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes 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 Montès ; silent footage of Martine Carol demonstrating the various hairstyles in Lola Montés. Plus: booklet features an essay by critic Gary Giddins.
- Cinematographer, Christian Matras ; editor, Madeleine Gug ; music, Georges Auric.
- Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henry Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost, Oskar Werner, Ivan Desny, Will Quadflieg, Friedrich Domin, Héléna Manson.
- This is a Blu Ray disc and will not play in a standard DVD player.
- French dialogue, English subtitles.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC1866BD
Control Number: 3182863
UPC: 715515052719
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2009]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection ; 503.
- The Criterion collection
- The Criterion collection ; 503
Subjects:
- Choice (Psychology) -- Drama.
- Circus -- Drama.
- Circus performers -- Drama.
- Conduct of life -- Drama.
- Courtesans -- France -- Drama.
- Interpersonal relations -- Drama.
- Life change events -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Auric, Georges, 1899-1983.
- Caraco, Albert.
- Carol, Martine, 1920-1967.
- Cinémathèque française.
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Delamare, Lise.
- Desny, Ivan.
- Domin, Friedrich, 1902-1961.
- Dubost, Paulette.
- Films du Jeudi (Firm)
- Florida Films (Company)
- Gamma Films (Firm)
- Guisol, Henri, 1904-1994.
- Janus Films.
- Manson, Héléna, 1898-1994.
- Natanson, Jacques, 1901-1975.
- Ophuls, Max, 1902-1957.
- Quadflieg, Will.
- Saint-Laurent, Cécil, 1919-2000. Lola Montes.
- Union Film (Firm)
- Ustinov, Peter.
- Wademant, Annette, 1928-2017.
- Walbrook, Anton, 1896-1967.
- Werner, Oskar, 1922-1984.