Images of the Day. Ringmasters

Written by Daniel Kasman

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Left: Jane Birkin in Jacques Rivette's Around a Small Mountain (2009); cinematography by Irina Lubtchansky and William Lubtchansky.

Right: Anton Walbrook in Max Ophüls's La ronde (1950); cinematography by Christian Matras.

Rivette and Ophüls—ringmaster cinema par excellence.  Not the same as theatrical cinema, of course.  Who else belongs to this group?

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  • Doug Dibbern

    Jacques Tati’s last film, PARADE (1974), is (mostly) a document of Tati as ringmaster for a modernist French hippy circus, but underrated I think, since most people treat it as a documentary of a performance rather than as a work of art with its own inner logic.

    http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/sleeve/larger/57515.JPG

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