The Shop Around the Corner
1940
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1 day ago · A classic film about lovers who are jewel thieves represents the height of style from director Ernst Lubitsch.
11 hours ago · If the story of this phony (inspired in part by To Be or not to Be by Ernst Lubitsch) is a pretext for filming a sparkling waltz of lies in the heart of verdant nature, the comic success is also due to the enthusiastic performance of Daniel Auteuil – a newcomer in the cinema of Bruno Podalydès – who is having fun like a little fool in the shoes of a seducer with old-fashioned charm who ...
1 day ago · In this post I am going to make the case for “To Be or Not to Be” as the greatest WWII comedy. TBONTB was released in 1942. It was directed by the acclaimed Ernst Lubitsch and stars Jack Benny and Carol Lombard (in her last film before her death in a plane crash on a war bond tour one month later).
3 days ago · „Sein oder Nichtsein“: Nach dem legendären Film von Ernst Lubitsch hat Nick Hartnagel den Stoff im Deutschen Theater Göttingen auf die Bühne gebracht. Ein Gespräch mit zwei Hauptdarstellern vor...
4 days ago · Ernst Lubitsch, the film’s cinematographer, skillfully captured the essence of the story and the characters through his visual storytelling.
3 days ago · My first encounter with “Casablanca” was, of course, that wonderful eponymous 1940s, WW2-era motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. While a very good movie—like its similarly-themed “To Be or Not To Be” by Ernst Lubitsch (1942)—it was not shot on site but in a Hollywood studio.
1 day ago · Horton was used by Ernst Lubitsch quite a few times in the 1930s. In Lubitsch’s masterpiece Trouble in Paradise (1932), Horton is Monsieur Filiba, charmed by jewel thief Gaston (Herbert Marshall) into talking about his, uh, tonsils for ten minutes before getting robbed.
