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Lola Montès Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Max Ophuls, Country: France/West Germany, Release: 1955, Runtime: 115 "There have been numerous attempts over the years to restore Lola Montes ... we finally have something close to a definitive version. DON’T MISS IT!" - David Fear, Time Out New York Ostensibly a biography told in flashbacks of Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montès, dancer, courtesan, mistress of composers and kings, Max Ophuls’s final masterpiece is really a meditation on time and the evanescent nature of fame and riches. As the director’s majestic moving camera glides alongside Lola through scenes of the greatest opulence and splendor, we become keenly aware that it will all crumble and vanish one day, that life is indeed nothing but a dream. Martine Carol is the ostensible star, and Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook and a young Oskar Werner are the men in her life, but the real star is Ophuls himself. He gave everything to this movie, and its subsequent financial failure and butchering at the hands of its producers were among the factors that contributed to his untimely death at the age of 54. The many attempts to restore Lola Montès over the years have proven to be difficult given the fact that the film was shot in the relatively unstable Eastmancolor process. This gleaming new restoration from the Cinémathèque Française, which incorporates all available footage, is truly a major cinematic event. “Lola Montès is in my unhumble opinion the greatest film of all time,” famously wrote the great film critic Andrew Sarris some 40 years ago. In honor of Andrew on the occasion of his 80th birthday, we’ve asked him to introduce this very special screening. A Rialto Pictures release. Max Ophuls b. 1902, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany d. 1957, Hamburg, Germany 1955 Lola Montès NYFF Retrospective 1953 The Earrings of Madame de... 1952 Pleasure 1950 Roundabout NYFF 1949 The Reckless Moment 1949 Caught 1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1947 The Exile 1940 From Mayerling to Sarajevo 1940 L’École des femmes 1939 There’s No Tomorrow 1938 Werther 1937 Yoshiwara 1936 The Trouble with Money 1936 The Tender Enemy 1935 Divine 1934 Everybody’s Woman NYFF Retrospective 1933 Liebelei NYFF Retrospective 1933 Love Story 1933 Laughing Heirs 1933 Man Stolen 1932 The Bartered Bride 1931 The Company’s in Love

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