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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: marriage circle
  title info:
    title: Only a dream
  name:
    name part: Lubitsch, Ernst
    name part: 1892-1947
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Shepard, David
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Flicker Alley (Firm)
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  name:
    name part: Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Drama.
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Fiction films.
  genre: Film adaptations.
  genre: Silent films.
  genre: Films muets.
  genre: Films de fiction.
  genre: Adaptations cinématographiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: zxx
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (85 min.)
  abstract: 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. Excerpts from essay by Scott Eyman, author of Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (Johns Hopkins Press) and Print the Legend: The Life and Time of John Ford (Simon and Schuster).
  target audience: adult
  note: an Ernst Lubitsch production ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; produced for video by David Shepard.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2017).
  note: Based on the play "Nur ein Traum" by Lothar Schmidt.
  note: Starring Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale, Adolphe Menjou.
  note: Silent; intertitles in English and musical accompaniment.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Schmidt, Lothar
      name part: 1862-1931
    genre: Film adaptations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Schmidt, Lothar
      name part: 1862-1931
  subject:
    topic: Marriage
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Marriage
  subject:
    topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  classification: 791.4372
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 171211
    record change date: 20241201232455.6
    record identifier: in00005578465
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng