Cold and Pure and Very Dead
When a New York Times reporter asks college professor Karen Pelletier to name the best novel of the 20th century, Pelletier mischievously names a long-out-of-print potboiler about a scandal in a small New England town. The accolade casts fresh light on the book and on its super-reclusive author. When a reporter is shot and killed on the author's farm, the author of course becomes the prime suspect. Pelletier, feeling guilty, vows to find out the truth about the killing. She travels to the small town where the novel is set and plunges into a real-life potboiler.
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This sixth volume of this exploration of 20th century music focuses on Schoenberg and Strauss, two of the most influential musical figures of their time. It also looks at the young post-war Europeans, such as Boulez and Stockhausen, who attempted to create a new kind of music, one that looked towards Europe`s future rather than its past.
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LOLA MONTES, the last film by Max Ophuls, is one of the most celebrated examples of both wide screen CinemaScope and lush Technicolor in film history. Added to this is Ophuls' usual use of sweeping crane shots and angled tracking shots, making this a beautiful, creative film. It is the story of Lola Montes (Martine Carol), the 19th Century dancer who was famous for her scandalous affairs with everyone from Franz List (Will Quadflieg) to Ludwig, the King of Bavaria (Anton Walbrook). At the end of her career she was the main attraction at a circus in the United States which featured a lavish tableaux of scenes from her life. The ringmaster, played by Peter Ustinov, leads the circus audience through her life, and also cues the cinematic flashbacks. Ophuls had used a similar structure in his adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play REIGEN in his film LA RONDE. Here, although not in chronological order, the flashbacks span Lola's life, covering everything from her early unhappy marriage to a drunken military officer, who she leaves to embark on a career as a dancer, to a very short affair with a German student played by a young Oskar Werner. Ophuls, with his always-moving camera, gives the story a wonderful sense of historical drama.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingSpecial Features: Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Filmographies.Keep Case
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