Powell & Pressburger's "Tales of Hoffmann"

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Have watched this over and over since getting it for Christmas; I've been waiting for it to come out on DVD for many years.

Ludmilla Tcherina = teh wow

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Only have seen it once a couple years ago; I'm not into the music enough to love it (and I hate when Satan wins), but it's certainly handsome and watchable.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I like the music itself a lot, though my one, big criticism is that the English libretto sucks--very forced rhyming, etc. I guess it was all they had to work with at the time...

Another is that Rounseville (the guy who played Hoffmann) is too stiff.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

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― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 January 2023 11:10 (three years ago)

nice!

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 January 2023 11:13 (three years ago)

eight months pass...

Flicking through the channels, this is just started. On London Live though, so the rest of youse are out of luck.

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:04 (two years ago)

nine months pass...

Saw the recent restoration the other night at MoMA. Truly amazing

― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2024 23:01 (one year ago)

Awesome

― brimstead, Saturday, 6 July 2024 02:10 (one year ago)

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