all-time top picture artists. (Watch a selection of Lubitsch clips below.) I think perhaps his sense of life and humanity was so much deeper than I could have possibly understood at ages 12 to 31. I ...

With “To Be or Not to Be,” director Ernst Lubitsch achieved something astonishing: He laughed in the face of the Nazis by creating a comedy that illustrates how their ideology makes them buffoons.

The great German, then American, director Ernst Lubitsch is currently featured as FilmStruck‘s “director of the week,” and they have a generous selection of his films spanning most of his career. A ...

Tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Northwest Chicago Film Society presents Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka, screening in a new 35mm print. One of the most important voices of classic Hollywood, ...

This weekend, the Stanford Theatre officially kicks off their latest film festival, “The Best of Ernst Lubitsch,” with two rare Lubitsch silents: “The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg” (1927) and ...

The name Ernst Lubitsch may not be as familiar to casual movie-goers as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks or John Ford, but some would argue he ought to be. The German-born filmmaker, who died at the age of ...

There is no Hollywood movie more insouciantly amoral than Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 Trouble in Paradise, screening at LACMA on July 9 to open the four-week series “Laughter in Paradise: The American ...

If you’re a lover of rom-coms, you’ll want to know the work of early Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch. Though Lubitsch is no longer a widely recognized name the way, say, Charlie Chaplin may be, his ...

A little ignorance is useful for developing one’s own ideas. Around thirty years ago, I sought out a VHS of Ernst Lubitsch’s “That Uncertain Feeling” (1941) to fill in a blank in my viewing of his ...