Come anticipate "The Earrings of Madame De..." at the Film Forum

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You lucky bastards. I must make do with my videocassette.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/movies/11kehr.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

One of the alltime greats. Isn't a Criterion coming in months?

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

is it??

i was considering ordering the bfi edition from amazon.co.uk

― s1ocki, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes i really wish i lived in ny :(

― s1ocki, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

you are "anticipating" a fifty year old fucking film?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

A great fucking film. Get thee to a video store, knave.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

alack and forthwith!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

"please fynde herein bestow'd mine order Proper for a DVD and some microwave popcorn"

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

i saw this film, on video, in the nineties.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

That one guy that quit = "the newer the greater"

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

well, not exactly, but it's hard to "anticipate" and old and revered film is it not? i am sure its original audiences and maker would be pretty bemused by the idea.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

better bemused than benighted

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Not if it hardly ever screens, ain't on disc and the best you can do is watch a 15-year-old videotape from the library.

Every time you watch a film is the first time you watch it that way -- theme of some web article I saw for 15 seconds this weekend...

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

how is it hard to anticipate something—anything—you're planning to do??

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

you are "anticipating" your birthday? i am sure your mother would be pretty bemused by the idea.

― J.D., Monday, 12 March 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

how is it hard to anticipate something—anything—you're planning to do??

I get cramps when I anticipate watching Ophuls.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

your mother and the original audience

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

A shot that does not call for tracks
Is agony for dear old Max
Who, separated from his dolly,
Is wrapped in deepest melancholy.

-- James Mason

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

awesome

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

i've been lucky enough to see this twice in a theatre (no not original release, lol). srsly, ophuls in untouchable

― gershy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'll wait for a DVD. Unfortunately, the Film Forum can seriously eat a ---- sometimes, audience-wise. I had to deal with some nutcase giggling and humming along to the music during a recent Morricone film I saw there. I was ready to have an usher pull her out of the room until I saw she was and old woman.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

"an old woman". Anyway, didn't Ophuls do "La Ronde". I love that one.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

i'm anticipating this cuz i haven't seen it yet!

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

and yeah the FF audiences suck. yes, i mean YOU, old man sitting behind me sucking loudly on hard candy and talking to his companion throughout the entirety of battle of algiers.

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 06:39 (eighteen years ago)

"That one guy," are you Enrique?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

Clue: I'm meh on Ophuls.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

Nice tracking shots though.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

watch this one.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ophuls was Kubrick's model for moving the camera (I wonder if James Mason chimed in on that).

FF audiences' notoriety is well-documented on these boards. Try going to the first show on a Sunday, the idiots will be home sleeping off Sat nite's chemicals.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, via TheReeler.com:

in my yawning scroll through Andrew Sarris's Observer piece this week about The Earrings of Madame De... and the regurgitated rest of "the greatest films of all time," I overlooked a key passage that Jim Emerson brought to my attention only yesterday:

Even among my contemporaries, I have become notorious over the years for my ecstatic -- to the point of orgasmic -- addiction to camera movement as an expression of the tyranny of time in the drama of human life.

Memo to shuddering self: Do not sit in front of Sarris at an Orson Welles film.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

there's a great moving shot in 'mean girls' that was a tribute to a scene from 'la regle du jeu', morbs. you'd dig it the most.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to go to the Friday 7:30 show during a rare window of opportunity on my way to Mr. Finewine's birthday party but I was denied- it was sold out.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

if you're in the UK Fopp have the DVD of this on sale for £7.

― jed_, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

I saw this last night, didn't remember SO much of it, including the ending. (I coulda killed the motherfucking philistine plastic bag-rattler chomping hard on the popcorn WHO LEFT 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE END, but hey, it's Film Forum.)

Love that long time-bridging waltzing sequence with Darrieux and de Sica. And was Charles Boyer anywhere near this great, ever?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

I saw this last week. I'm ashamed to say it was the first time. Sarris surprisingly OTM re: moving shots here (but maybe not elsewhere).

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

there's always got to be a first time, CB.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

it's at the mfa in boston in april, along with rules of the game.

― edb, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Is tonight the last night, or the penultimate? Maybe I should buy me a ticket.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Thursday is last, Ken

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

plz plz come here

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

plz plz come here
Guys, take it over on Casuistry's thread.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I finally made it. I never knew about the umlaut.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

wait, the umlaut?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

i'll be seeing this tonight (finally)

― impudent harlot, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't a Criterion coming in months?

i remember reading somewhere (prob. the criterion forum) that there's gonna be an ophuls box released either late this year or early next year (with this and le plaisir in it, at least)

― impudent harlot, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

region-coding is such idiocy.

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

It's playing here, in little old Western Mass., at the spiffy new Amherst Cinema.
But i had never heard of it until I saw the ad and then read this thread.
I will go see it for everyone here who can't. And to make up for my appalling ignorance as well.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

And was Charles Boyer anywhere near this great, ever

Nope. He seems to get more elegant and ironic with each confrontation with De Sica.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I usually don't like him so much- for instance, I much prefer Anton Walbrook to him in their respective versions of Gaslight. This is much better than anything else I remember him doing.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I loved Boyer in the original Love Affair and was a splendid foil for Jennifer Jones in Cluny Brown (too little seen).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Is it him who had the catchphrase "Come with me to the Casbah"? Did he say it to Hedy Lamarr in a remake of Pepe Le Moko called Algiers, or is it some kind of "play it again, Sam" type thing that was never quite spoken?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I saw Cluny Brown not long ago.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

the iMdb is yr friend: The line was in the trailer, not in the film.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

C'mon Morbs, I am trying to hold on to the last few memory cells in my brain by exercising them.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

wow.

― impudent harlot, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

Today's Stylus review says there's a r1 DVD at year's end, but I can't find further info.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

How come they didn't give that one to Alfred to review?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

They could have jetted him up to the FF in NYC at Stylus's expense.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

ermmmm, Ken, someone a little closer to the Film Forum reviews for Stylus too. *cough*

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

C0L1N?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Me and Morbs need a double byline.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

back for 2 weeks at the FF.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I saw this for the first time at the opening of the Seattle International Film Festival's new space in February - such a wonderful movie.

― Jaq, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Just ordered this for £7 on play.com. Just called "madame de..."

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Is "The Reckless Moment" as good as this and "Unknown woman"?

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

no (at least re Madame) but it's awfully good.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

And it's not on DVD either.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Those bastards at Criterion only tease. "Oooooo, look at our new print! Someday, perhaps, we'll let you buy it. Maybe."

― Jaq, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

It is on r2.

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Well. Sounds like I didn't splurge on a region-free DVD just for My Neighbor Totoro then.

― Jaq, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Out via Criterion today along w/ La Ronde and Le Plaisir!

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

I pre-ordered and should have all 3 today - v.v. excited!

― Jaq, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

oh shit! This caught me offguard. I've treasured my VHS copy.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

On the debit side, the disc has an intro by PT (Barnum) Anderson.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

stoked.

love the argument over the concept of "anticipation" upthread.

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

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