Max Ophuls – Stream On Demand

‘The Earrings of Madame de…’ – Max Ophuls’ romantic classic on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica star in this elegant drama of romance as an elaborate dance played out in a society where appearances are everything. It placed in the number 90 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.

‘La Ronde’ – love is a dance on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Max Ophuls directs this delicate, graceful romantic classic, a celebration of love and desire and passion and folly through the course of lovers as they change partners and continue the dance of romance.

Leaving soon: ‘Caught’ – Cinderella noir on Criterion Channel

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Melodrama and social commentary meet film noir in this drama of romance, wealth, and power from Max Ophuls, starring James Mason (in his American film debut), Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan.

Blu-ray: ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ – Olive Signature Edition

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Letter from an Unknown Woman (Olive Signature, Blu-ray) (1948), the second Hollywood film by European émigré Max Ophüls (who was credited as Opuls on his American movies), is his first American masterpiece, an exquisitely stylish romantic melodrama (based on a novel by Stefan Zweig) informed by his continental sensibility. “By the time you read this […]