Features
Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Reviews
Wednesday, January 18 2012
'Design for Living' Is a Raunchy, Stylish, Pre-code Gem
Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March are a ménage-à-trois for the ages.
Wednesday, June 15 2011
'Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany' Is a Bleak, Disturbing and Well-Argued Book
Rudolph Herzog’s chilling assertions show that the presence of humor describing such events as the burning of the Reichstag building and the Night of the Long Knives means that these happenings were common knowledge and German citizens understood their meaning.
Wednesday, April 23 2008
Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals
The pre-Hays Code sexual innuendos of these films capture a side of the musical rarely seen in classical Hollywood films, of guilt-free dalliances and blatantly carnal wordplay in the style of Cole Porter.
Wednesday, June 15 2005
Heaven Can Wait: Criterion Collection (1943)
The newly dead Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) wants to be judged.
