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.

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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, ...

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 ...

“The Lubitsch touch” was the brainchild of a go-getter in the Warner Bros. publicity department named Hal Wallis, when Ernst Lubitsch was under contract at the studio in the 1920s. Thus did future ...

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 ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Curiosity is a key factor of being a cinephile—maybe the ...

In the years after a rigid Production Code imposed morality on American cinema, occasionally a studio would go begging to the Production Code Administration. The studio would say, "Hey, we have this ...

Maybe you saw Six, the popular stage musical which features the six wives of Henry VIII. They dance, prance, sing. Each had an unfortunate ending, but audiences see the energetic side of each woman, ...

It’s a bold director who decides to remake an Ernst Lubitsch film, but François Ozon’s choice of “Broken Lullaby,” one of the master’s least known works and a drama to boot, probably seemed like a ...