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June 12, 2012  |  An Auteurist History of Film
Max Ophuls’s The Earrings of Madame de…

The Earrings of Madame de…. 1953. France. Directed by Max Ophuls

These notes accompany the screenings of Max Ophuls’s The Earrings of Madame de…on June 13, 14, and 15 in Theater 3.

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

April 17, 2012  |  An Auteurist History of Film
Max Ophuls’s Le Plaisir

Le Plaisir. 1952. France. Directed by Max Ophuls

These notes accompany the screenings of Max Ophuls’s Le Plaisir on April 18, 19, and 20 in Theater 3.

Le Plaisir, like Charles Chaplin’s The Circus</a>, has suffered neglect over the years because it happens to be sandwiched in between two of its director’s most famous films.