Word: maxed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ophuls, who is son of the famed director Max Ophuls, is the first of a series of French film figures who will come to Harvard under the auspices of West European Studies, including Philippe de Broca, Roberto Rossellini, Claude Chabrol, and Francois Truffaut...
...Seventh Seal. Bergman's medieval allegory of life and death. Stars Max von Sydow...
...phenomenal Before the Revolution, made in 1963 when he was 22, Bertolucci included a funny, affectionate cafe conversation during which a film intellectual says flatly that "the dolly shot is a moral statement." By such a playful standard, Bertolucci would be Pascal. No one since the late Max Ophuls (Lola Monies) has moved the camera quite so exuberantly, and with such easy, fluid symmetry. Such a luxurious style can sometimes weigh heavily on the material; in The Spider's Stratagem it complements the material, indeed reinforces it. Tara, its name recalling Gone With the Wind and conjuring up phantoms...
Nosferatu. F.W. Murnau's 1921 film was the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first...
George A. Weller '29 is the oldest Crimson editor with a Pulitzer. While an undergraduate, Weller divided his time between being Editorial Chairman and his life as thespian. After graduation the stage called and Weller enrolled in the Max Reinhardt School in Vienna, and later became an actor in the Max Reinhardt Theater...