The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Written By: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Dennis Arundell, Jules Barbier
Starring: Pamela Brown, Robert Helpmann, Ludmilla Tchérina, Moira Shearer, Léonide Massine, Ann Ayars, Barry Lowe, Robert Rounseville, Frederick Ashton
Genres: Romance, Musical, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
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The Tales of Hoffmann belongs to 33 collections
1. Criterion Collection (collaborative: moderated by caffe - 167 stars)
2. Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need to See to Know Anything About Film (collaborative - 44 stars)
3. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (collaborative: moderated by Gregzilla - 40 stars)
4. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2008 revision) (collaborative: moderated by Scottathon - 39 stars)
5. AAA: Empire's five star movies (collaborative: moderated by KasperL - 24 stars)
6. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2017 revision) (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 22 stars)
7. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)
8. Great color cinematography (collaborative: moderated by Alex Watkins - 16 stars)
9. The Obscure, the Forgotten, and the Unloved (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 15 stars)
10. Dance (collaborative: moderated by Dorkovsky - 10 stars)
11. David Thomson's 1000 Films (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 7 stars)
12. Ballet (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)
13. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2007 revision) (collaborative: moderated by Scottathon - 4 stars)
14. Fever Dream (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 4 stars)
15. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
16. Criterion Art House Essentials (public: asperastrum - 4 stars)
17. Opera (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
18. Directed collaboratively (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
19. They Shoot Pictures ex-Top 1,000 (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 3 stars)
20. Djross film as art (public: djross - 3 stars)
21. Sight and Sound 2002 (Single Vote) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 1 star)
22. British director (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
23. Djross best dance movies (public: djross - 1 star)
24. Djross best musicals (public: djross - 1 star)
25. Jodie's Movie of the Year (public: jgreenwood - 1 star)
26. Cinetheque (public: allegreller - 1 star)
27. Cannes 1951 Official Selection (collaborative: moderated by djross)
28. Pre-1960's color photography (collaborative)
29. TSPDT 2017 new additions (collaborative: moderated by avgcrtckr)
30. Libby (collaborative: moderated by davidysteph)
31. Djross 1951 top five (public: djross)
32. Filmspotting Ratings Project: Week 14 (public: PeaceAnarchy)
33. Jodie's Feature Film of the Year (public: jgreenwood)
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Dean Franz | 77 74th |
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Gloriously silly and frequently awesome. It's basicly The Archers jizzing as much color and culture into your cranium as their scrotums can muster. I know, I know- that doesn't exactly sound inviting, but still... doesn't it sound better than the actual summary?
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MartinTeller | 73 46th |
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Incredible set design, mouth-watering Technicolor, and a goodie bag full of dazzling technical tricks. The cinematography rivals Cardiff's work on Red Shoes in terms of sheer gorgeousness. And I enjoyed the German influence. Most of the stuff going on here is astonishing, and part of me desperately wants to love this film. And yet, I can't stomach opera and I find ballet very silly. Just not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
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djross | 84 94th |
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Offenbach and Barbier (and Arundell) never really capture the uncanniness of Hoffmann's stories, altering and condensing them rather violently, but Powell and Pressburger's attention to aesthetic detail in every aspect of the production makes this a constant delight for the audience, and exemplifies how cinema contains the potential to reinvent and renew cultural wealth, but has perpetually avoided doing so. All opera should keep the singers invisible and have them replaced onstage by dancers!
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Suture Self | 7 67th |
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I'm sorry but I can't do sustained opera singing. I mean, I can, it's just not always going to be on my wavelength.
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Stain | 50 33rd |
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One of the few less than brilliant Powell/Pressburger films. George A. Romero and Martin Scorsese, my two favorite filmmakers, love this movie, but I think it's just "eh". There's something that's just so deeply wrong about that
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chmul_cr0n | 59 26th |
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It's a story about a dude who falls in love with a woman, and then another, and then another, and then he dies. It's one of those tragic accounts of a man who died before managing to acquire a personality. Or... meeting someone who possesses one. It' a great showcase for the technical prowess of P & P. It's also a shining example of how weird the combination of great storytelling + no actual story can be. They should have made it a ballet, 'cause those parts were not even boring at all.
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| Average Percentile 58.25% from 212 Ratings |  |