Mubi is showing Max Ophüls' Liebelei (1933) from November 9 - December 8, 2016 in most countries around the world.While the primary players in Max Ophüls’ 1933 film Liebelei may be introduced at the same opera house, seeing the same performance of Mozart’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio,” the real drama is produced away from the stage, though it is rarely any less histrionic. As secretive private passions and illicit romances are revealed, so softly and elegantly in what would become the presentational norm for Ophüls, a genuinely pure, ultimately heartbreaking, relationship emerges from the scandalous furor. When philandering German Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) meets and falls for Christine Weyring (Magda Schneider), the daughter of an opera musician, he is commendably quick to break off his essentially lustful involvement with the adulterous Baroness von Eggersdorff (Olga Tschechowa). Unlike Arthur Schnitzler’s source play (Schnitzler, who would also provide the foundation for Ophüls’ excellent 1950 film,...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
Maria von Trapp dead at 99: ‘The Sound of Music’ character played by Heather Menzies was last surviving member of the singing von Trapp family (photo: The singing von Trapp family) Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the singing von Trapp family portrayed in The Sound of Music, died in her sleep at her Vermont home on Wednesday, February 19, 2014. Baron Georg von Trapp’s second-eldest daughter, Maria Franziska (born in Zell am See, Salzburg, Austria, in 1914) was 99. Heather Menzies played Baron von Trapp’s second-eldest daughter, renamed Louisa von Trapp, in 20th Century Fox’s 1965 blockbuster directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews as singing nun-to-be Maria Kutschera (later Baroness Maria von Trapp) and Christopher Plummer as the Baron. (See Heather Menzies, Charmian Carr, Kym Karath, and Angela Cartwright at 2008 event.) Financially ruined during the Great Depression, Baron von Trapp and his family began performing as a...
- 2/23/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Despite The Sound of Music being a family film staple I only watched the film in its entirety a few years ago. The film survives its forty plus years, and the standard setting and parody inherent with such success, because it is ultimately a story about a family surviving the shifting sands of their homeland with the onslaught of political upheaval.
The 1959 film Die Trapp-Familie by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, based on Maria von Trapp’s memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, inspired a Broadway musical and six years later Robert Wise directed the film which would guarantee the story of the von Trapps would live on through the generations.
When I was growing up my regular visits to The Prince Charles Cinema, just off Leicester Square in London, would always hold a moment of curiosity. The poster for Sing-a-long-a-Sound of Music would have an almost permanent placement on the...
The 1959 film Die Trapp-Familie by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, based on Maria von Trapp’s memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, inspired a Broadway musical and six years later Robert Wise directed the film which would guarantee the story of the von Trapps would live on through the generations.
When I was growing up my regular visits to The Prince Charles Cinema, just off Leicester Square in London, would always hold a moment of curiosity. The poster for Sing-a-long-a-Sound of Music would have an almost permanent placement on the...
- 11/20/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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