Ophüls

American  

[oh-fuhls, aw-fyls] / ˈoʊ fəls, ˈɔ füls /

noun

1. Max Max Oppenheimer, 1902–57, German film director, in Germany, France, and the U.S.

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Ophüls British  

/ ˈɔːfəls, ˈɔphyls /

noun

1. Max (maks). 1902–57, German film director, whose films include Liebelei (1932), La Signora di tutti (1934), La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), and Lola Montes (1955)

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Example Sentences

Instead, its fame spread in translation, including French film adaptations by Max Ophüls and Roger Vadim.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Can you imagine Bergman, Ophüls, Cukor, or Mizoguchi accepting such a curb?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 25, 2019

Like a modern-day Max Ophüls, Cuarón choreographs sequences in beautifully sustained long takes, and the duration of those takes achieves a powerful moral weight.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2018

It was over these same mountains that Ophüls and his German-Jewish family fled the Nazis in 1941 — to Spain, Portugal and, ultimately, Los Angeles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017

He noted that at least on a normal-size screen, there was never any of the dreaded stammer in the panning shots of Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophüls or Jean Renoir.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016