Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"...Ernst Lubitsch's best and most loyal acolyte once recalled, in..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Holiday Viewing: The Shop Around the Corner

The essential Jimmy Stewart Christmas movie (no, not that one)

"...It’s a Wonderful Life, but in 1940, it was Ernst Lubitsch who spotted the everyman in his leading man...."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Shop Around the Corner

"...Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch. Starring: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan...."

July 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch: 'To Be or Not to Be'

Lubitsch's 1952 film casts Jack Benny as a Nazi?

"...a comedic actress in his tome against communism, Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch upped the ante by casting Jack Benny in..."

Aug. 27, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Make 'Em Laugh (And, Yes, Even Learn)

The Alamo Drafthouse inaugurates a new film appreciation series with Ninotchka

"...you might say Greta Garbo was touched by a Lubitsch. But more likely, you'd say, "Say what?"..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney

"...glass slipper. Fritz Lang, John Ford, Josef von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz all spun the young,..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Trouble in Paradise

"...Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch. Starring: Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis...."

Feb. 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lubitsch Musicals: Eclipse Series 8

There's a provocative postscript left off Lubitsch Musicals: pre-Code

"...Lubitsch Musicals: Eclipse Series 8Criterion Collection, $59.95..."

March 21, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...$26.98): Based on Noel Coward's stage play; the great Ernst Lubitsch directs. Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

SXSW Film First Wave Announced

Jonesing for Joss Whedon? He'll be here shortly

"...announced five other titles, including a a little-seen early Ernst Lubitsch silent to be paired with a live score..."

Jan. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Silent Pearl Pops With New Sound

'The Oyster Princess' screens with a live score by Bee Vs. Moth

"...film comedy are familiar with that thing called the Lubitsch Touch, that ill-defined but readily identifiable quality that elevates..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heaven Can Wait

Ernst Lubitsch's first effort in Technicolor shimmers like Champagne in crystal: all bubbles, trifles, and blithe sophistication

"...Criterion, $29.95 Ernst Lubitsch has a reputation as one of the most..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...original live score by Bee vs. Moth (Germany) Director: Ernst Lubitsch, Screenriters: Hanns Kraly & Ernst Lubitsch The Oyster..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...Trouble in Paradise (D: Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): Tue, 7/1, 7:15pm; Wed, 7/2, 9:20pm..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature

The Impostors

"...tried-and-true shipboard milieu, something that's part Marx Brothers, part Ernst Lubitsch, part Laurel and Hardy? Or is it an..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Gary Cooper Collection

Rarely did he singe the big screen with his craft, yet his dimpled impassivity was ready-made for audience personification

"...personification. "A ragged straw hat," ventures Miriam Hopkins in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933), "with a very soft..."

June 24, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Design for Living (1933)

Three corners in a love triangle

"...wire. (It was banned from re-release a year later.) Ernst Lubitsch, working with star screenwriter Ben Hecht, applied his..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

DVDs

Gift guide

"...teens: 10%. Particularly heartrending is the handsome trailer from Ernst Lubitsch's 1928 Emil Jannings epic, The Patriot. "This film..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two

Judging resigning City Manager Jesus Garza's performance in a difficult job will take some time; XLent's recent cover controversy brings back memories and reminds us how cool talk radio is; screwball comedies were the funniest movies ever, and the Austin Film Society is showing eight of them in the next two months.

"...usually on a double bill with Grand Hotel. Finally Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (Feb. 19) will blow your..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Conversations With Wilder

"...script for Mitchell Leisen's 1939 gem Midnite, collaborations with Ernst Lubitsch (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Ninotchka), and an early directorial..."

March 10, 2000 Books Review by Raoul Hernandez

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...D: Ernst Lubitsch; with Margaret Sullavan, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Running Brave

"...the Afternoon, was an ode to his favorite director, Ernst Lubitsch. As with other Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond scripts,..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Opera Fights, Puppet Plays, and More Arty Events

Get an arts fix this week

"...friends as anonymous pen pals. Sound familiar now? It's Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, and In the..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Tired of the Same Old Christmas Movies? Try These Instead.

7 unconventional picks to scratch your holiday itch

"...That doesn’t mean the movie is all softness; director Ernst Lubitsch (Ninotchka, Design for Living) gooses laughs from an..."

Dec. 22, 2020 Screens Post

What’cha Watchin’?

Get in the spirit of the season with these holiday movie recommendations

"...the CornerTurner Classic Movies, Mon., Dec. 25, 5pm Director Ernst Lubitsch told the New York Sun in November of..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Screens Column

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...have been the auteur in the manner of an Ernst Lubitsch or Sturges himself, but who was responsible for..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

BBC Names Top 100 Comedies of All Time

Film critics poll picks Some Like It Hot for top slot

"...1957) 7) The Jerk (Carl Reiner, 1979) 8) Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) 9) Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998) 10) What's..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...a reminder of why so many great directors, from Ernst Lubitsch to Orson Welles, wanted to work with him...."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Vincent Price Collection'

The master of horror at the height of his Poe powers

"...included here, he talks about working with everyone from Ernst Lubitsch to Orson Welles and Cecil B. DeMille. These..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LoneStarCon 3: The Lois McMaster Bujold Interview

The Hugo Award nominee and past winner on biology as politics

"...make as much sense in a Preston Sturges or Ernst Lubitsch film from the 1930s...."

Sept. 1, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

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