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	Tales of Hoffman (1951)
		Tales of Hoffman was released in 1951, at a time when the gritty realist school of cinema was dominant.
		The separate tales are tied together by Hoffman, his muse Nicklaus (Pamela Brown), and his nemesis, Lindorf (Robert Helpmann), who appears successively in the guises of the spectacle-maker, Coppelius, the magician, Dapertutto, and the doctor, Dr Miracle.
		Sequences such as when Giulietta and Dapertutto move towards Hoffman in their gondola to the music of the Barcarolle or when Lindorf strips off a series of masks to expose his various roles in Hoffman's undoing are literally unforgettable.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Tales_Hoffman.html (618 words)

	CER \| Film: Jerzy Hoffman and Ogniem i mieczem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Not that the filming was simple, Hoffman was caught harassed by the authorities as part of the 1968 wave of organised anti-Semitism and the film's shooting had to be interrupted due to the Soviet-led invasion of Czecboslovakia.
		Hoffman laughs as he recalls how this contrasts with working under the state-supported system of the previous regime: "Potop was shot with one camera and one lens," he recalls.
		Hoffman admits with remarkable cheerfulness that next year he is going to be 70 and, therefore, he can't afford to work any more on projects that take a decade to prepare.
	www.ce-review.org /01/14/kinoeye14_horton.html (1873 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Spectrum - Tales of Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hoffman, an intensely private man who grimaces at the first hint of a probing personal question, is an earnest fellow who takes his profession seriously.
		Hoffman keeps in touch with his father, who’s now retired from Xerox, but the son admits he’s never been entirely sure what it was his father did for the corporation.
		Yet Hoffman says he spent much of his teenage years battling against her, "because my image of being a man was a deformed one".
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /spectrum.cfm?id=90872003 (2461 words)

	little blue light - E. T. A. Hoffmann
		Hoffman was born in 1776 in the university town of Königsberg to Christoff Hoffmann, a mentally unstable lawyer in the Prussian civil service, and his neurotic wife, Luise.
		The couple divorced when Hoffmann was two years old and he went to live with his mother in the depressing and bizarre household of his maternal grandmother, a religious fanatic who lived with her two daughters and son, Otto.
		A classic suspense tale with all the overflowing emotions, madness and courtly intrigue typical of the Romantic period.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=9 (1601 words)

	EUFS: The Tales of Hoffman
		The Tales of Hoffman - the Archers' ballet-opera adaptation of Offenbach's opera about the German Romantic author E T A Hoffman and his stories - is an unusual, magical, cinematically brilliant movie that deserves to be seen.
		With Tales the Archers sought to take their notion of a "composed film" - first seen in The Red Shoes's incredible 15-minute ballet sequence - as far as it could go, integrating sound and image to a degree rarely seen in non-animated cinema (another instance being the battle sequences in Eisenstein/ Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky).
		In turn, this makes The Tales of Hoffman distinctively cinematic, not merely a piece of filmed opera and ballet, in spite of its having sung rather than spoken dialogue and dancers rather than actors in most of the roles.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_tales_of_hoffman.html (1188 words)

	CityBeat: Tales of Hoffman (2003-05-28)
		At rise, Joel Hoffman, age 6, is seated in his living room, watching the rain fall beyond a picture window.
		Hoffman explains the story-line for the opera: "Mordechai, his wife and his three daughters are materialized in the present," he says.
		At nearly the same time as the premiere of his first opera, Hoffman also debuts a work commissioned by Timothy Rub, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, to mark the opening of the Cincinnati Wing, the museum's tribute to artists who flourished in Cincinnati in the 19th and 20th centuries.
	www.citybeat.com /2003-05-28/onstage.shtml (991 words)

	Artquest > The Artlaw Archive > Current Copyright Legislation > ©autionary Tales: Of Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hoffman then wrote to Duffey, who as Liberal agent was the publisher of the flyer including the photograph, telling him that reproducing the image without permission was contrary to the Copyright Act of 1956 and that he should not use it again.
		Hoffman wrote to Duffey once more, restating that he owned copyright in the original photograph, reminding him of the previous misuse and asking for information on the print run.
		Hoffman decided to use this route, partly because of the greater sanctions available including the threat of a criminal record for Duffey.
	www.artquest.org.uk /artlaw/copyright/cautionary.htm (1396 words)

	Tales of Hoffman/Elle Magazine, January 2001
		Hoffman's character is an earnest young playwright-turned-screenwriter whose masterpiece is about to be corrupted, along with its creator, by the silky blandishments of the movie business.
		But while Hoffman imbues the wretched Allen with bleak comedy, he also inhabits him to the core, making him so ineluctably real that the disgust he inspires is spiked with uneasy recognition.
		Hoffman looks better off-screen than his roles permit.
	ddraven.tripod.com /psh/articleelle.html (1067 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| The tales of Hoffman
		Dustin Hoffman is one of the most versatile and respected actors in the film business.
		As Benjamin Braddock, Hoffman was a symbol for a generation that rejected the values of their parents but were uncertain and confused about their future.
		Hoffman remains greedily on the lookout for a script with a good role for him, be it a supporting role or even a cameo.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/11/19/bfhoff19.xml&menuId=564&sSheet=/arts/2004/11/23/ixfilmmain.html (1096 words)

	WebMaster April, 1997 - Tales of Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For several years, Hoffman, a professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn., has been widely known in Internet commerce circles for her groundbreaking research into electronic marketing, business models and metrics.
		Nearly all of Hoffman's works list Novak as co-author, and it is Novak about whom she's speaking when she says "we studied" or "our research." Married for 17 year s, they live with their 9-year-old son, Nicholas, in a house with so many computers they're considering networking them.
		HOFFMAN: From a commercial perspective, I think it's clear that electronic commerce - - i.e., transactions - - will be an extremely important business model in the future and a key way that firms will look to the Web to provide profitability.
	www.cio.com /archive/webbusiness/040197_hoffman.html (2879 words)

	NOW : Movies : iMAGES: Tales of Hoffman : Apr 12 - 18, 2001
		Philip Hoffman pushes the van-guard of personal filmmaking, running the pictures that pass before his eyes through a spring-wound Bolex camera, a hand-processing tank and an editing machine.
		Hoffman's films are compressed and intimate, so the retro amounts to only two screenings.
		The heart of the Hoffman spotlight is the premiere of What These Ashes Wanted (April 14, 7 pm), his longest, bravest and surely most heartbreaking film.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-04-12/movie_features2.html (580 words)

	Tales of Hoffman - Steal This Movie! turns Abbie Hoffman into the civil liberties hero he never was. By Jared Hohlt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hoffman's longtime lawyer Gerald Lefcourt (played by Kevin Pollak in the movie) served as associate producer, and Hoffman's ex-wife Anita consulted on the script and visited the set.
		Although Raskin says that Hoffman dealt cocaine for about two years before his 1974 arrest, Lefcourt alleges that Hoffman's bust was the unfortunate result of a "lark": Hoffman, perhaps with an eye toward a book, wanted to explore some outlaw activity before New York state's new strict Rockefeller drug laws went into effect.
		Hoffman also loved to tell the story of how, as a fugitive, he'd pretended to be a tourist and gone on a guided visit of the FBI headquarters.
	slate.msn.com /id/88471 (1541 words)

	Observer \| Tales of Hoffman
		Hoffman, while 'trying to do as much work as I can before I show up on set', likes to keep experimenting once the cameras start rolling.
		Hoffman and Mamet do have one thing in common; in Hoffman's words, they're 'really not West Coast kinds of guys'.
		However, the West Coast is keen to coopt Hoffman, as the daily avalanche of scripts thunking on to his doormat attests.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4092944-102278,00.html (2172 words)

	IDS: 'Tales of Hoffman' has it all (Arts, 11/18/2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"The Tales of Hoffmann" was written in 1880 by the French composer (of German-Jewish origins) Jacques Offenbach.
		Although Offenbach is primarily known for his light and satiric operettas, this work is a grand-scale, full-length and quite serious opera.
		"Tales of Hoffman" will be playing at the Musical Arts Center Nov. 22 and 23 at 8 p.m.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=13229 (762 words)

	AlternativeApproaches.com: The Tales of Hoffman
		All of us street urchins knew where Hoffman lived, and sometimes, when we had nothing better to do, we would make pilgrimages to the apartment just to ring the buzzer to see if he was home.
		While waiting for the judge, whose name was also Hoffman, to enter the courtroom, the eight defendants sat in their seats, nervous and glum about the long prison sentences that might await them.
		Recently Abbie Hoffman was in the news again, with the release of the movie about his life.
	www.alternativeapproaches.com /altapr/aahoffman.html (947 words)

	The Tales of Hoffman
		For the libretto, three tales by the poet Hoffmann were reworked, making Hoffmann himself the hero of his stories.
		She performed in La Boheme and The Tales ofHoffmann at La Scala and The Tales of Hoffmann at Vienna State Opera.
		The Tales of Hoffmann is sung in French with English surtitles.
	www.houstontheatre.com /tales.html (2681 words)

	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography Jacques Offenbach
		The tale is told of how, as a boy, Offenbach was taught to play the violin, but was discouraged from learning the cello.
		From this desire 'The Tales of Hoffman' was born.
		Offenbach died in Paris on the 5th October 1880, but in 1881 the posthumous premiere of 'The Tales of Hoffman' was performed.
	www.lessontutor.com /bf_offenbach.html (1133 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Tales of Hoffman
		Hoffman lacks the everyday romance of Shoes, is sung throughout instead of having spoken dialog, and lacks humor.
		Prolog has Hoffman (Robert Rounsevville) watching a ballet and in love with the prima ballerina, Stella (Moira Shearer), who appears to him as the embodiment of his past loves.
		Third act, set on a Grecian isle, has Hoffman in love with Antonia (Ann Ayars), daughter of a singer and conductor, who is in danger of dying from consumption if she herself attempts to sing.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117795434?categoryid=31&cs=1 (422 words)

	UrbanTulsa.com - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Based on the stories of poet E.T.A. Hoffman, The Tales of Hoffman promises to be a memorable experience of three women loved and lost as Hoffman remembers them with vision not quite 20/20.
		She changes into Nicklausse and is a sidekick of sorts to Hoffman throughout the story until she becomes the Muse once again at the end.
		Hoffman is a marathon role, being essentially every scene, but Power has played Hoffman before.
	www.urbantulsa.com /article.asp?id=1918 (1642 words)

	LeisureSuit.net Media, LLC: Advanced Search
		Hoffman reflects on the passing of Dave Van Ronk.
		Hoffman thinks Rudy Giuliani's refusal to reject a third term is immoral.
		Hoffman presents his 5th Grade style of humor, and how it may have gone too far.
	www.leisuresuit.net /searchresults.shtml?contenttype=2 (494 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Tales of Hoffman (Les Contes D'Hoffmann) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Such is the literary milieu created by ETA Hoffman, which inspired Jacques Offenback to compose an opera on three of these chiaroscuro vignettes.
		Certain elements are common to all three tales; the importance of Music, superfluous references to artists, scientists and writers of the day, and the quaint contrivance of protecting the identity of the cities by merely giving their first initial.
		Hoffman's themes are depressing but fascinating; so often the love of good women can not avail the heroes, who simply refuse salvation.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/079350693X (440 words)

	LeisureSuit.net Media, LLC: Tales of Hoffman
		Hoffman is tired of pretending not to be pissed off at Islam.
		Hoffman's broken specs find him in an ophthalmological paradise of Greek Goddesses.
		Hoffman brings a Blue Cheese on the Amtrak Viewliner and all hell breaks loose.
	www.leisuresuit.net /talesofhoffman (516 words)

	Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
		In the opera “the Tales of Hoffmann” there is a complex structure of several layers of meaning.
		The first is that the opera is about the stories (tales) of Hoffmann the historical figure[1] adapted to a libretto by Jules Barbier and composed by Jacques Offenbach.
		According to this literary level the stories of the opera (and also their original Hoffman stories) are about the victory of forces of mysticism against those of enlightment, using their forces to make the hero fall in love with singers and thereafter destroy and hurt him by making the female singers taken from his life.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Choir/4792/offenbach.html (1099 words)

	ToH - Review by Amy Greenfield
		I dared to tell him (though my memory was so vague) that I thought The Tales of Hoffmann is as important for dance on film as The Red Shoes.
		In each tale Powell reenacts what Jung calls "the dark man" or "the psychic predator," a figure who brings a woman to life, to own or control her, allowing her to put into power her expression, only to possess or destroy her.
		And in the end, I like to think that the "erased" shots of Nicklaus/Pamela Brown as Golden Muse act as a "spirit break." The spirit break is a tiny part of the design left out of Navajo rugs, to make an empty place where the spirit can enter and bring dead matter alive as art.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/51_Hoffmann/Hoff01.html (2673 words)

	W: Tales of Hoffman: Dustin Hoffman, appearing in three new films, has figured out how to age gracefully, if not ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		W: Tales of Hoffman: Dustin Hoffman, appearing in three new films, has figured out how to age gracefully, if not quietly.
		Tales of Hoffman: Dustin Hoffman, appearing in three new films, has figured out how to age gracefully, if not quietly.
		You can ask Dustin Hoffman a simple question, but that hardly guarantees a straightforward or concise reply.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:101367605&refid=ink_tptd_mag (241 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best Tales of Hoffmann: Books: E. T. A. Hoffmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ten of Hoffmann’s greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and six others.
		The ten in this collection are tales of the fantastic (Hoffmann is also credited by some with inventing the detective story with "Madame de Scudery", not included here, which predates, and may have influenced, Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering efforts in the genre) and include the four which provided the basis for Offenbach's opera.
		The style, like Mozart's, is bright, energetic and often comic; the substance, as with caricature, mixes the bizarre with the mundane in a fashion quite unlike that of anyone else you've ever read, even among Hoffmann's batallions of readers, followers and imitators.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486217930?v=glance (985 words)

	Dad's Memories - TALES OF HOFFMAN
		TALES OF HOFFMAN-- Bob Hoffman, Congregational Minister - Haddam Neck, Connecticut.
		The Hoffman's lived in the Parsonage, the Roberts rented the house next to the Parsonage, and Grace and I were "minding" Walter Johnson's new house close by - while Walter left for a short-lived stint in the Navy.
		Bob Hoffman, minister, as you might expect is a gentle type person, easygoing and fun to be with - but prone to involvement in "unusual" incidents, alone or when we were doing things together.
	home.att.net /~eldad.too/DadsMem011a.htm (1718 words)

	BBC - Leeds - Entertainment - The Tales of Hoffman
		The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach will be performed by Leeds Youth Opera at the Civic Theatre from Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 February.
		The story is about Hoffmann a young poet who, although in love with the opera singer Stella, is invited to tell the stories of his three great loves.
		The Tales of Hoffman is at Leeds Civic Theatre, Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 February 2005, 7.30pm.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leeds/content/articles/2005/01/27/leeds_youth_opera_hoffmann_feature.shtml (290 words)

	Tales of Hoffman, a CurtainUp Los Angeles review
		Offenbach, known for most of his life for his lilting operettas, yearned to leave his mark on the world with an opera and, for his final work, chose some of the tales of German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, whose fantasies are precursors of today's surreal and horror genres.
		His romantic progress went from a passion for a figure who turned out to be a mechanical doll to a real loving girl who sacrificed herself and their love for her art to a heartless courtesan at the peak of her profession.
		In the Epilogue, Hoffman thinks he has found all three in a singer who spurns him as heartlessly as Guilietta.
	www.curtainup.com /talesofhoffman.html (700 words)

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