Topic: performance
A Max Ophüls monument: Rialto Pictures celebrates the spectacle with a revival of "Lola Montès." (Photo courtesy Rialto Pictures)
"Lola Montès," revived
“Sadism demands a story,” remarked Laura Mulvey in her landmark piece of feminist film criticism, “Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema.” In Max Ophüls’ opulent swan song, Lola Montès (1955), sadism also demands a spectacle. Ophüls’ Technicolor rhapsody— newly restored by Rialto Picture to match the director’s original vision— opens in a three-ring circus worthy of DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth. Costumed dwarves, swinging chandeliers, horse-riding acrobats and tiers of audience members kaleidoscopically divide the frame, as the Ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) invites the audience to ask questions for 25 cents a piece to the star attraction, the scandalous adventuress Lola (the beautiful Martine Carol).
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His and hers: John Duykers plays Mordake in Erling Wold's production during the SFIAF. (Photo courtesy SFIAF)
SF International Arts Festival
In addition to bringing a host of worldwide performers to the Bay Area for the first time, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 2-June 8), now in its fifth year, has become an indispensable showcase for collaborative work by leading Bay Area artists and their peers across all manner of geographical, cultural and disciplinary borders. The more than 40 performances in this year’s lineup, taking place at 14 separate venues across the city and in Berkeley, span the worlds of dance, music, opera, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary work. The following four highlights are all hybrid productions with strong film and/or video components.
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