The Tales of Hoffmann

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (400 movies items)

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★★ NOTES: New BFI print, my last screening in the Powell + Pressburger season. Aside from the point when we first see Hoffmann and Antonia together, this is practically spotless on its first public run, even though the BFI kind of biffed its presentation (forgetting to dim the backlight, shift the first five reels into position at the start and turn projector B on). DATE: December 9th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank"

My trips to the cinema 2023 (410 movies items)

"SCREENING: 35mm, Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger DATE: December 9th CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank"

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and since it was available on Netflix, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, even though it might not belong to their famous movies, it was still probably one of their most ambitious productions. However, even if I really did admire the work done, I have to admit that I had an incredibly hard time to connect with the damned thing though. In fact, it wasn’t the first movie adaptation of an opera I have seen. Indeed, I have also seen ‘The Magic Flute’ which was directed by Kenneth Branagh, even if it was a seriously obscure movie which was never even released in the US. Anyway, basically, I have never been a huge fan of musicals in general and opera” read more

“(OK) Pretty, really pretty, pure musical ballet almost going to abstraction; each tale is independent but has a romatic agonic feeling, as the doll torn to pieces or tge literally agonic singer...” read more