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...Marcel Duchamp, who died in 1968 at the age of 81, is universally acknowledged as a founder of modern art. But then, had he died in 1923 at the age of 36 he would also have been universally acknowledged as a founder of modern art. The difference between the oeuvre of the young man and the old is one, and only one, major piece...
What happened in those intervening years? Neglect? Young artists constantly acknowledged their debt to the aging experimentalist. A new career? The master had no other interests save a lifelong fascination with the game of chess. No, it is simply that Marcel Duchamp was secretly working on an indecipherable masterpiece: Marcel Duchamp. That is the only important work missing from the Philadelphia Museum's exhaustive reclamation project, "Marcel Duchamp: A Retrospective Exhibition...
...obvious contrast to Chase's film is Marcel Ophuls' documentary on the Irish Struggle, A Sense of Loss. More can be drawn from this comparison than Ophuls' obvious technical superiority, for Chase has not felt compelled to imitate the centralist humanist politics of his precursor. Using the same subject matter and the same documentary form as A Sense of Loss, No-Go is a dare, defying the definitions of documentary film-making. No-Go makes a bid for personal politics in documentation. This is a bid with some history, including the first Russian recipes for dogmatic cinema and the propaganda...
...Marcel Marceau, L.H.D., pantomimist...
Lola Montes. Famous for its tracking shots, this extravagantly baroque film by Max Ophuls (Marcel's father), was one of the most colossal financial failures in the history of the cinema, but its 1969 re-release led to much critical approval. The film stare Martine Carols and Peter Ustinov and hurtles madly through Lola's scandals and romances with Lizst, the King of Bavaria, etc., through exciting circus scenes, even through a loose version of the 1848 revolutions...