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Ernst Lubitsch

It Takes Three: Design for Living

Kim Morgan | Posted 02.07.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Fredric March, Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Criterion Collection, Design for Living, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

A "gentleman's agree­ment" is not so easy -- not when it comes to Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper and Fredric March. Criterion has released the g...

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On The Artist, The Lure of Nostalgia, and Ten Silent Movies Worth Talking Up

John Farr | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Metropolis, The Academy Awards, King Kong, The Artist, Margin Call, Battleship Potemkin, Martin Scorsese, The New York Times, G.W. Pabst, Best Movies on DVD, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Silent Film, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Silent Movie, Hugo, Thirteen/WNET, Louise Brooks, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, A.O. Scott, City Lights, Fritz Lang, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

Just when you start believing there's no hope for anything daring and original coming out of Movieland, something gets released that surprises you. The Artist is one such movie -- and what's new about it is that it's old.

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Just Maybe -- the Best Comedy Film Director Ever

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Don Ameche, Carole Lombard, Maurice Chevalier, James Stewart, Claudette Colbert, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Entertainment Weekly, Mary Pickford, Tom Hanks, William Wyler, Greta Garbo, Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Astaire, Gene Tierney, Meg Ryan, Criterion Collection, Jack Benny, Entertainment News
John Farr

Even though Entertainment Weekly named him the 16th-best film director of all time, if I mention the name Ernst Lubitsch to my own middle-aged contemporaries, I usually get a hazy look.

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Recalling "The Lubitsch Touch"

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tom Hanks, Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Billy Wilder, Greta Garbo, Best Movies on DVD, Ernst Lubitsch, Best Movies by Farr, Meg Ryan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Benny, Entertainment News
John Farr

If you have not experienced the German director Ernst Lubitsch's special "touch," well -- here's your chance.

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Remembering Jennifer Jones and A Perfect Afternoon at the Movies

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jennifer Jones, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Academy Awards, Daniel Selznick, Joesph Cotten, Madame Bovary, Montgomery Clift, New York City, John Huston, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Portrait of Jennie, Karl Malden, The Walter Reade Theater, The Song of Bernadette, Vincent-Minnelli, Deborah Kerr, Beat the Devil, Cluny Brown, Ingrid Bergman, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch, Joan Fontaine, Fred Astaire, David O. Selznick, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Jennifer Jones always defied easy analysis, so much the better for us to simply surrender to her films themselves.

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