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number of offer-
ing Monet, Dali,
ings this winter
van Gogh, Renoir,
season but opens
Degas, Matisse,
with a cinematic
Picasso, Rodin and
bang: a gleaming
Jewish painters
vow /
new restoration,
Camille Pissarro
incorporating all
and Amadeo
available footage,
Modigliani, to name
by the Cinematique
just a few.
Francaise of direc-
Special hours
tor Max Ophuls'
during this final
Lola Montes, an epic
weekend are: Friday,
portrait of Elizabeth
Jan. 16, 10 a.m.-5
h
MAIN
Rosanna Gilbert,
p.m. (early closing
better known as
time); Saturday, Jan.
Lola Montes, an Irish-born dancer,
17, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. (late closing time);
courtesan and mistress of composers
Sunday, Jan. 18, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. (late
and kings who ascended to fame in
closing time). A special museum shop
with items specifically related to the
the mid-19th century, followed by a
exhibition, including a fully illustrated
fall from grace.
In 1954, Ophuls, a German Jew
catalogue, is set up near the exhibi-
who fled the Nazis and a director of
tion.
such classics as La Ronde, fashioned
Tickets, which include an audio tour
Lola Montes, his first production
and museum admission, are $18 for
both in color and in the widescreen
adults, $8 for ages 6-17, DIA members
CinemaScope process, as the biggest
free. (313) 833-4005 or www.dia.org .
budgeted French production to date.
But at a preview screening of Lola
Judy, Judy, Judy
in 1955 Paris, audiences were seem-
ingly confused by its flashback struc-
The life story of Judy Garland is told
through music as Meadow Brook
ture. Producers seized the film and
butchered it — and the film negative
Theatre presents Beyond the Rainbow
— mercilessly. Within a few months,
through Feb. 1 on the campus at
dismayed about what had happened to Oakland University in Rochester.
his beloved film, Ophuls became very
Written by William Randall Beard
and directed by Travis W. Walter, the
ill and soon died. (In America, the
film appeared on television in a heav-
musical is set during Garland's famed
ily edited — almost two-thirds of the
1961 Carnegie Hall performance as
original was lost— and restructured
she sings the songs that made her
famous; meanwhile, the story of her
English-dubbed, black-and-white ver-
sion called The Loves of Lola Montes.)
life unfolds around her.
1961 also was the year of Garland's
The DFT screens the restored
Lola Montes 7 and 9:30 Friday and
Oscar-nominated performance in
Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16-
the film Judgment at Nuremberg,
playing an Aryan woman whom the
18. $6.50-$7.50. (313) 833-4005 or
court questions about an alleged
www.dia.org/dft.
affair with an elderly Jewish man. In
Note: Serving as third assistant
director on Lola Montes was Max's
fact, Garland had many Jewish men
in her personal life, including two of
son, Marcel Ophuls, the future docu-
mentary filmmaker of The Sorrow and her husbands: composer David Rose
the Pity, the 262-minute portrait of the (1941-1944) and her manager Sid Luft
(1952-1965), with whom she had two
French provincial town of Clermont-
Ferrand during Nazi occupation that
children, Lorna Luft and Joey Luft,
Woody Allen takes Diane Keaton to
who often appeared as kids with their
mother on the CBS series The Judy
see on a date in Annie Hall.
Garland Show (1963-64).
In the Meadow Brook production,
Final Weekend
Kimberly Vanbiesbrouck plays Judy
And while you're film-going at the DIA Garland at Carnegie Hall, with Andrea
Mellosplaying Garland in flashbacks.
this weekend, make time to catch the
The rest of the cast includes Seth
exhibit of the superstars of modern
art in "Monet to Dali: Modern Masters Amadei, Milica Govich and Chris
from the Cleveland Museum of Are
Korte, each playing several roles.
Tickets are $24-$39. For show times
Sunday is the last day to see 75 paint-
and ticket information, call (248) 377-
ings and sculptures from a "who's
3300 or go to www.mbtheatre.com .
who" of modern art masters includ-

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