Sun July 19, 2015
The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1951)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s followup to their enormously successful ballet film The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach’s magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a poet’s amorous adventures. The first concerns Olympia, a puppet passed off as a real woman to Hoffmann, who sees her torn to pieces before his eyes; the second, a Venetian courtesan, Giulietta, who captures Hoffmann’s mirror image and his soul; and the third, the tragedy of a singer kept from singing, lest she suffer the fate of her mother, who died of consumption.
• Written by Powell and Pressburger. Adapted by Dennis Arundell from the opera by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Jules Barbier. Photographed by Christopher Challis. (133 mins, Color, DCP, From Rialto Pictures)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s followup to their enormously successful ballet film The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach’s magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a poet’s amorous adventures. The first concerns Olympia, a puppet passed off as a real woman to Hoffmann, who sees her torn to pieces before his eyes; the second, a Venetian courtesan, Giulietta, who captures Hoffmann’s mirror image and his soul; and the third, the tragedy of a singer kept from singing, lest she suffer the fate of her mother, who died of consumption.
• Written by Powell and Pressburger. Adapted by Dennis Arundell from the opera by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Jules Barbier. Photographed by Christopher Challis. (133 mins, Color, DCP, From Rialto Pictures)
New Digital Restoration!
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s followup to their enormously successful ballet film The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach’s magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a poet’s amorous adventures. The first concerns Olympia, a puppet passed off as a real woman to Hoffmann, who sees her torn to pieces before his eyes; the second, a Venetian courtesan, Giulietta, who captures Hoffmann’s mirror image and his soul; and the third, the tragedy of a singer kept from singing, lest she suffer the fate of her mother, who died of consumption.
• Written by Powell and Pressburger. Adapted by Dennis Arundell from the opera by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Jules Barbier. Photographed by Christopher Challis. (133 mins, Color, DCP, From Rialto Pictures)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s followup to their enormously successful ballet film The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach’s magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a poet’s amorous adventures. The first concerns Olympia, a puppet passed off as a real woman to Hoffmann, who sees her torn to pieces before his eyes; the second, a Venetian courtesan, Giulietta, who captures Hoffmann’s mirror image and his soul; and the third, the tragedy of a singer kept from singing, lest she suffer the fate of her mother, who died of consumption.
• Written by Powell and Pressburger. Adapted by Dennis Arundell from the opera by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Jules Barbier. Photographed by Christopher Challis. (133 mins, Color, DCP, From Rialto Pictures)
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