Laugh for laugh, the film stacks quite well against Lubitsch’s most lauded masterpieces.
The film jumps recklessly (and, often, exhilaratingly) from coarse comedy to cutting drama.
Kino’s release of Lubitsch’s bleakest film provides indispensable evidence of the great comic director’s astounding versatility.
Lubitsch’s film is a deceptively lighthearted exploration of class and gender issues in Britain on the brink of World War II.
This high-def upgrade calls new attention to just how much the film’s florid images match the beauty of Samson Raphaelson’s script.
As one scholar says in the accompanying documentary, “You could spend a lifetime studying 1939.”
We may try to make the old things new, but we had one Ernst Lubitsch, he’s long gone, and we aren’t getting another one.
Gemünden’s extensive definition of “exile” draws on the likes of theorists Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, and Salman Rushdie.
This Blu-ray release illustrates how Lubitsch aided the resistance, as only he could: with dignity, always dignity.
I say this with love: My father is a master of rhetoric. He is a master of rhetoric without, by his own admission, ever having mastered anything to do with rhetoric.
Creating this fantasy Sight & Sound ballot felt as much like excavation as photography.
Loose, shaggy, and more than a little rough, Gimme the Loot hearkens back to NYC indies like Kids.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
Design for Living is sexy in ways we're still trying to, ahem, wrap ourselves around.
It can be tricky to describe what distinguishes Louis C.K. from other stand-ups, even from those who specialize in observational, storytelling, confessional comedy.
Once Nora Ephron ditches the whole social impetus of her remake, the movie settles in to a lovely rhythm.
What is the famed “Lubitsch touch” if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?
A mysterious, handsome man lures women to their doom.
I’m not going to lie: With these movies I expected the Lubitsch touch to at least cop a feel.
The four Ernst Lubitsch musicals collected in this box set mark a transitional period in his work.