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Ophuls. This week the Harvard-Epworth Church, where you see movies from the pews, will begin a retrospective of films by Max Ophuls (with the exception of his most famous, Lola Montes, which is showing at the Brattle later this spring). This Sunday evening is his Letter From an Unknown Woman, with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan (1948), which will be shown with a rare film clip of Mariene Dietrich singing for the English version of The-Blue Angel, called I'm Falling in Love Again...
...Lola Dickerson said the impact tax would be felt hardest in New England because the area electric companies use residual, or imported, oil for electricity...
...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...
...cabarets--which have an air of being recent revivals--the striptease shows have taken poses from Liza Minelli (her film is immensely popular on the Kurfurstendamm) and one establishment has the latterday name of "Lola Montez." There are still touches of the bizarre: a poster advertises topless dancers parading engagingly as boxers--gloves, helmet, Everlast. The political cabarets have become almost purely theaters, and the shows are tame; one has closed down to become a children's theater. One laughs at jokes about the Nazis; nowhere is there anything resembling Gunter Grass' famous description in The Tin Drum...
...Damn Yankees. The unlikely mixture of music, baseball, and the Faust legend is sheer delight. Gwen Verdon demonstrates why Lola gets exactly what she wants, and a pre-Martian Ray Walston makes a slippery devil. Natives of Washington, D.C., enjoy this film more than any other viewers, for it is only those maligned sufferers who have spent hundreds of nights listening to the Senators lose and waiting for the cool Canadian air masses to move in who have considered selling their souls for an air conditioner and just one win over the Yankees, not to mention a pennant. Channel...