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TITLE (DIRECTOR)

ARIA (Various)

BARAKA - REMASTERED (DVD) (Ron Fricke)

BARAKA -REMASTERED (BLURAY) (Ron Fricke)

BARAKA/CHRONOS BOX SET (Ron Fricke)

BECKET (Peter Glenville)

BEDAZZLED (Stanley Donen)

BELLE CAPTIVE, LA (Alain Robbe-Grillet)

BELLE EPOQUE (Fernando Treuba)

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

BEYOND THE CLOUDS (Michelangelo Antonioni)

BLACK CAT, THE (Edgar G Ulmer)

BLACK ORPHEUS (Marcel Camus)

BODY AND SOUL (Robert Rossen)

BOILING POINT (Takeshi Kitano)

BOOM! (Joseph Losey)

BOSSU, LE (Phillipe de Broca)

BRAIN DAMAGE (Frank Henenlotter)

BREAKDANCE : THE MOVIE (Joel Silberg)

BREAKDANCE 2 : ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (Sam Firstenberg)

BREAKING AWAY (Peter Yates)

BRIEF CROSSING (Catherine Breillat)

BROWNING VERSION, THE (Anthony Asquith)

BURNT BY THE SUN (Nikita Mikhalkov)

BUTTERFLY KISS (Michael Winterbottom)

CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (Henry Hathaway)

CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (Peter Weir)

CAUGHT (Max Ophuls)

CEREMONIE, LA (Claude Chabrol)

CHÂTEAU DE MA MÈRE, LE (Yves Robert)

CHRISTIANE F (Uli Edel)

CHRONOS (Ron Fricke)

COEUR EN HIVER, UN (Claude Sautet)

COLD FEVER (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)

COMPULSION (Richard Fleischer)

COOL AS ICE (David Kellogg)

CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

D'ARTAGNAN'S DAUGHTER (Bertrand Tavernier)

DANTON (Andrzej Wajda)

DON GIOVANNI (Joseph Losey)

DOUGAL AND THE BLUE CAT (Serge Danot)

DOWN AMONG THE Z MEN, THE GOONS IN (Rogers MacLean)

EDWARD II (Derek Jarman)

ELECTRIC DREAMS (Steve Barron)

ENFANTS DU PARADIS, LES (Marcel Carné)

ENFER, L' (Claude Chabrol)

EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju)

FORCE OF EVIL (Abraham Polonsky)

GAMBIT (Ronald Neame)

GETTING ANY? (Takeshi Kitano)

GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, THE (Frank Tashlin)

GLOIRE DE MON PÈRE, LA (Yves Robert)

HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND, THE (Patrice Leconte)

HEIMAT FRAGMENTS - THE WOMEN (Edgar Reitz)

HEIMAT (Edgar Reitz)

HEIMAT 2 (Edgar Reitz)

HELLZAPOPPIN' (H.C. Potter)

HERE COME THE DOUBLE DECKERS (Summers Jeremy Booth Harry)

HOPSCOTCH (Ronald Neame)

HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF, THE (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

I AM CURIOUS YELLOW/BLUE (Vilgot Sjöman)

IN THE SOUP (Alexandre Rockwell)

IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)

JUBILEE (Derek Jarman)

KIDS RETURN (Takeshi Kitano)

LAST OF ENGLAND, THE (Derek Jarman)

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)

LIVING IN OBLIVION (Tom DiCillo)

LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)

LORD OF THE FLIES (Peter Brook)

MACBETH (Orson Welles)

MADAME DE… (Max Ophuls)

MAJOR BARBARA (Gabriel Pascal)

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (Charles Jarrott)

MICROCOSMOS (Claude Nuridsany)

MICROCOSMOS (BLURAY) (Claude Nuridsany)

MODESTY BLAISE (Joseph Losey)

MONSIEUR HIRE (Patrice Leconte)

MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (Michael Sarne)

NOCE BLANCHE (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

OTHELLO (Orson Welles)

PANDORA'S BOX (G.W. Pabst)

PARFUM D'YVONNE, LE (Patrice Leconte)

PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston)

PARTING GLANCES (Bill Sherwood)

PATRICE LECONTE COLLECTION, THE (Patrice Leconte)

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Peter Weir)

PLAISIR, LE (Max Ophuls)

POSSESSION (Andrzej Zulawski)

PYGMALION (Anthony Asquith)

QUERELLE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

QUEST FOR FIRE (Jean-Jacques Annaud)

RAVEN, THE (Lew Landers)

RECKLESS MOMENT, THE (Max Ophuls)

RENDEZ-VOUS (André Téchiné)

RIDICULE (Patrice Leconte)

RIEN NE VA PLUS (Claude Chabrol)

RING FINGER, THE (Diane Bertrand)

RONDE, LA (Max Ophuls)

RUTLES 30TH ANNIVERSARY, THE (Gary Weiss)

SCENE AT THE SEA, A (Takeshi Kitano)

SCENT OF THE GREEN PAPAYA, THE (Tran Anh Hung)

SEBASTIANE (Derek Jarman)

SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY (Jess Franco)

SONATINE (Takeshi Kitano)

STORMY WEATHER (Andrew L. Stone)

SUMMERTIME (David Lean)

TAKESHI KITANO COLLECTION (Takeshi Kitano)

TANGO (Patrice Leconte)

TEMPEST, THE (Jarman. Derek)

TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (BLURAY) (Tobe Hooper)

TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (DVD) (Tobe Hooper)

TIME REGAINED (Raoul Ruiz)

TO HELL AND BACK (Jesse Hibbs)

TOTO THE HERO (Jaco Van Dormael)

VALSEUSES, LES (Betrand Blier)

VAMPYROS LESBOS (Jess Franco)

VIOLENT COP (Takeshi Kitano)

WAR REQUIEM - 20TH ANNIVERSARY (Derek Jarman)

WILD STYLE (Charlie Ahearn)

WILD TARGET (Pierre Salvadori)

WISE BLOOD (John Huston)

WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Original Ratio 2.55:1
French Language/English Subtitles
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
COLOUR PAL
Region Code 2
Running Time110 MINS
Cat no. 2NDVD 3152
Cert: PG

LOLA MONTÈS

'SUBLIME’ channel4.com
‘A MAGNIFICENT RESTORATION’
New York Times

MARTINE CAROL · PETER USTINOV

A ringmaster introduces star attraction Lola Montès, ‘the most scandalous woman in the world’. Once the mistress of artists and kings, she has now become a circus exhibit, and as she is paraded before the enthralled masses her notorious story unfolds.

Max Ophuls’ final work was released to great controversy in 1955. The style was not what audiences were expecting and critics were polarized in their reviews, seeing it as either incomprehensible or a masterpiece. Today the film is widely viewed as not only the director’s greatest work but one of cinema’s.

A highly-acclaimed restoration presented at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Rapturously received it takes its place as one of the great cinematic restorations of a ‘lost’ masterpiece.

Special Features
  • ‘Working with Max Ophuls: Lola Montès revisited’
    A new 70-minute making-of documentary by Ophuls
    scholars Martina Müller and Robert Fischer
  • Commentary by Susan White
    author of ‘The Cinema of Max Ophuls’
  • Presented in its original ratio of 2.55:1