The Marriage Circle
(eVideo)
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Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 86 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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eVideo
Language
English
Notes
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In Process Record.
General Note
Title from title frames.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1924.
Description
The tone is set from the opening scene as legendary director Ernst Lubitsch effortlessly sets up the duality of one perfectly happy marriage contrasted with another couple in a perpetual state of grimly endured misalliance. The Marriage Circle is full of scenes with a sense of unspoken formality, of a mutually antagonistic marital standoff that has been going on for years. The move/countermove rhythm slightly anticipates the slow, tit-for-tat rhythms of Laurel and Hardy, but instead of escalating toward physical destruction, Lubitsch freezes the emotional temperature at a quiet, indicative irony. Unlike real people, these characters never lose their control, which is the essence of their absurdity, the soul of their wit. Before this film, the audience could only see Lubitsch characters move; with The Marriage Circle, we begin to see them think. Before, there were large sets and hundreds of extras. Now, Lubitsch strips everything down to the essentials: a few actors, a car, a garden, a dining room, a staircase. Lubitsch's German films, even the fine ones, tend to be brass bands - compelling, funny, but unavoidably loud. With The Marriage Circle, Lubitsch became the composer of the cinema's finest, most elegant chamber music. To see it in this glistening print derived from the original negative, with an appropriately lilting score by the Mont Alto Orchestra, is to fall in love with the movies - and Ernst Lubitsch - all over again.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lubitsch, E. (2016). The Marriage Circle . Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lubitsch, Ernst. 2016. The Marriage Circle. Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lubitsch, Ernst. The Marriage Circle Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lubitsch, Ernst. The Marriage Circle Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
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Grouping Information
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Full title | marriage circle |
Author | kanopy |
Grouping Category | movie |
Last Update | 2023-09-27 09:56:57AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-17 02:28:04AM |
Book Cover Information
Image Source | sideload |
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First Loaded | Dec 19, 2023 |
Last Used | Mar 3, 2024 |
Marc Record
First Detected | Mar 24, 2016 12:00:00 AM |
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Last File Modification Time | Sep 27, 2023 09:57:59 AM |
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