Lola Montès
1955
DVD
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit inches Charts the course of Montes's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604652321
Edition: Special edition.
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (114 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 2.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: Lola Montes
Notes:
- Based on the novel by Cecil Saint-Laurent.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
- Special features include: audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White; theatrical re-release trailer from Rialto Pictures; "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 Martine Carol demonstrating the various hairstyles in Lola Montes. Booklet features an essay by critic Gary Giddins.
- Title from container.
- Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henry Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost, Oskar Werner, Ivan Desny, Will Quadflieg, Friedrich Domin, Helena Manson.
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio tracks in French, with optional subtitles in English.
Contents:
- Disc 1. Lola Montès (DVD).
- Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD).
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC1865D
- CC1865D
Control Number: 796596
UPC: 715515052610
Publisher: Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2009]Series:
Subjects:
- Circus -- Fiction.
- Circus performers -- Fiction.
- Courtesans -- France -- Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
- Montez, Lola, 1818-1861 -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Romance films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Auric, Georges, 1899-1983, composer.
- Baum, Ralph, producer.
- Caraco, Albert, film producer.
- Carol, Martine, 1920-1967, actor.
- Cinémathèque française, production company.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Delamare, Lise, actor.
- Delbat, Germaine, 1904-1988, actor.
- Desny, Ivan, actor.
- Domin, Friedrich, 1902-1961, actor.
- Dubost, Paulette, actor.
- Eaubonne, Jean d', 1903-1971, designer.
- Esmond, Carl, 1904-2004, actor.
- Fayet, Jacques, actor.
- Films du Jeudi (Firm), production company.
- Finck, Werner, 1902-1978, actor.
- Florida Films (Company), production company.
- Galland, Jean, 1887-1967, actor.
- Gamma Films (Firm), production company.
- Gug, Madeleine, 1913-1971, editor of moving image work.
- Guisol, Henri, 1904-1994, actor.
- Manson, Héléna, 1898-1994, actor.
- Matras, Christian, 1903-1977, director of photography.
- Météhen, Jacques, conductor.
- Natanson, Jacques, 1901-1975, screenwriter.
- Ophuls, Max, 1902-1957, screenwriter, film director.
- Quadflieg, Will, actor.
- Saint-Laurent, Cécil, 1919-2000. Lola Montes.
- Union Film (Firm), production company.
- Ustinov, Peter, actor.
- Wademant, Annette, 1928-2017, screenwriter.
- Walbrook, Anton, 1896-1967, actor.
- Werner, Oskar, 1922-1984, actor.