{"id":8438,"date":"2010-12-14T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2010-12-14T04:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:32:57","slug":"the-tale-of-giulietta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/14\/the-tale-of-giulietta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Giulietta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann01.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann01\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watching Powell and Pressburger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044103\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Tales of Hoffmann<\/em><\/a> (1951) again at the weekend it occurred to me that the second act, <em>The Tale of Giulietta<\/em>, is the closest British cinema gets to the extravagant weirdness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064940\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fellini Satyricon<\/em><\/a>. Or it was until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120879\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Velvet Goldmine<\/em><\/a>&#8230; Lavish costumes and artificial decor, feasts, orgies, lust, betrayal, sorcery, a duel&#8230;it&#8217;s all there, even a spot of androgyny if you count Pamela Brown&#8217;s role as Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ludmilla Tch\u00e9rina as Giulietta<br \/>\n\u2022 Robert Helpmann as Dapertutto<br \/>\n\u2022 Robert Rounseville as Hoffmann<br \/>\n\u2022 L\u00e9onide Massine as Schlemil<br \/>\n\u2022 Pamela Brown as Nicklaus<\/p>\n<p>If this is on YouTube I don&#8217;t want to know. Do the artists a favour, watch their work on DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann02.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann02\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann03.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann03\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann04.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann04\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann05.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann05\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann06.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann06\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann07.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann07\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann08.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann08\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann09.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann09\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann10.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann11.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann11\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann12.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann12\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann13.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann13\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann14.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann14\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann15.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann15\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann16.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann16\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hoffmann17.jpg\" alt=\"hoffmann17\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/27\/diaghilev-and-the-ballets-russes\/\">Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Powell and Pressburger&#8217;s The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) again at the weekend it occurred to me that the second act, The Tale of Giulietta, is the closest British cinema gets to the extravagant weirdness of Fellini Satyricon. Or it was until Velvet Goldmine&#8230; Lavish costumes and artificial decor, feasts, orgies, lust, betrayal, sorcery, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/14\/the-tale-of-giulietta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tale of Giulietta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,21,7,3],"tags":[643,1100,355,2071,2070,1783,2066,354,2069,2067,2068,2472],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-fantasy","category-film","category-music","tag-androgyny","tag-ballets-russes","tag-emeric-pressburger","tag-eta-hoffmann","tag-jacques-offenbach","tag-leonide-massine","tag-ludmilla-tcherina","tag-michael-powell","tag-pamela-brown","tag-robert-helpmann","tag-robert-rounseville","tag-velvet-goldmine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}