Max Ophüls Articles

Robert Ryan, Caught (top); Joan Bennett, James Mason, The Reckless Moment (bottom) Located in Rochester, NY, the George Eastman House has been preserving movies for decades. Additionally, the Eastman House screens new and old movies at their Dryden Theatre. This week, blizzards notwithstanding, Rochester denizens will be offered two dark 1949 Max Ophüls dramas, Caught, starring James Mason, Robert Ryan, and Barbara Bel Geddes, and [...]

Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan Letter from an Unknown Woman Louis Jourdan is Turner Classic Movies' star of the evening, which has just kicked off with a showing of Vincente Minnelli's 1958 multiple Oscar-winning musical Gigi, co-starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. But the highlight of the Louis Jourdan evening comes later, with the 7:15 p.m. (Pacific Time) TCM premiere of Max Ophüls' haunting Letter from [...]

Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe in La Ronde FILM All About Eve d, scr: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Annie Get Your Gun d: George Sidney; scr: Sidney Sheldon Caged d: John Cromwell; scr: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld Harvey d: Henry Koster; scr: Mary C. Chase, Oscar Brodney King Solomon’s Mines d: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton; scr: Helen Deutsch Madeleine d: David Lean; scr: Stanley Haynes, Nicholas Phipps [...]