fuckin' Cluny Brown still unavailable on DVD in America.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 January 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
(xp)B-b-b-but it was the Christmas rush!
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 January 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpfSP-EJXI8
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
also, you'll need a pal player but i have to assume you have onehttp://www.amazon.com/Cluny-Brown-NON-USA-FORMAT-Import/dp/B0041KXFDO
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
i got my copy from TCM on Tivo and goddamn, it's a winner
just rewatched Design for Living on Criterion... Milton is right, cept as the guy doing the commentary suggests that the ending is a bit dark; after all, they are going back to poverty to live 'outside society.'
March's take when Hopkins (who is just great) says "Something happened to me that usually only happens to a man" is a highlight.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe that bum EE Horton put the whole thing on YT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fha0SlGIpM0
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
I watched the Criterion edition last week too. The movie's too cute by half, I think.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
pish tosh
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
Needs the morning newspaper thrown at his head.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
watching those three marvelous actors on that train, going for laughs when no laugh track exists
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
there was an audience at some point you know in December '33
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
People laugh during the gaps in Laurel & Hardy films too -- honest!
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
when it ended I watched Cluny Brown for the 400th time.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Bogdanovich shares his notes file:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-lubitsch-file-part-3
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-lubitsch-file-part-2
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-lubitsch-file-part-1
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
rewatched Trouble In Paradise, forgot that fellow eunuch Charlie Ruggles is the bane of EE Horton's existence.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Armond on Bogdanovich & Lubitsch:
http://cityarts.info/2013/06/10/at-long-last-lubitsch/
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
of course he loves at long last love. here's cybill shepherd talking about it: http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/cybill-shepherd-on-at-long-last-love. pity i can't find a clip of madeline kahn doing 'down in the depths on the 90th floor', she really is the highlight of a dreary dreary movie.
― balls, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
on Lubitsch and the great Jack Benny:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2888-how-to-film-jack-benny
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
A new critical anthology:
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/in-times-like-these-lubitsch-cant-wait
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Saw Die Begkatze ('The Wildcat') at the Goethte Institut last night. It's a 'mountain comedy', i.e. slapstick in the snow starring Pola Negri and it was pretty funny.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 3:25 PM (5 years ago)
Yeah, the sets in that are amazing; also 1919's Die Puppe / The Doll:http://silentsplease.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/die_puppe_1919_advert.jpghttp://silentsplease.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/13-die-puppe-ossi-chew-2.gif
http://silentsplease.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/die-puppe/
― etc, Monday, 21 July 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
saw Shop again today (yesterday?), incredible. From "A little too much goose liver" to "Could you let me see your legs now?" Samson Raphaelson needs a shoutout as one of the great comedy writers.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
It stays in my mind as among the best written films I've ever seen.
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link
watched it for the first time over the holidays – stunning. I knew very little about it, thought it would be a jolly enough romantic classic – wasn't ready for the wit's sharpness, the waves of unhappiness, the perfect construction. Amazing.
― woof, Thursday, 1 January 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
closeup of Sullavan's hand failing to find Stewart's letter in mailbox.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Unusual that despite the Budapest Hollywood conceit, almost all the set signage is in Hungarian.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
To make sure his film was stripped of the glamor usually associated with him, Lubitsch went to such lengths as ordering that a dress Sullavan had purchased off the rack for $1.98 be left in the sun to bleach and altered to fit poorly.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
This is his only non-glamourous picture, no?
Remember remarking upon Hungarian signage years ago, then forgetting.
― Can We Be Shown Worldbuilders + Mike Harrison? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
love this movie. when i first saw it i knew it only as the nominal inspiration for You've Got Mail. It is, of course, infinitely better than that suggests.
― Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Friday, 2 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
The YGM connection is the very reason that I have, if not outright avoided this film, than at least never made seeing it a priority. I should finally get on that. Next TCM airing, I promose.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 January 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
rewatched To Be or Not to Be over the weekend... not my fave as it gets too straight-ahead plotty now and then, but man, that "Dropping dynamite" line + Benny's takes.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
We should POLL the silents. Or at least watch and report back.
― Monstrous Moonshine Matinee (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
that great GREAT Polish actor
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
What he is doing to Shakespeare, we are doing to this thread.
― Monstrous Moonshine Matinee (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
wouldn't have voted for it but missing 'the marriage circle' is some bullshit.
i saw this yesterday at MoMA... It's the original of One Hour with You. Monte Blue, sort of the male lead, gets on my nerves a little, but the other 3 principals are a hoot (incl 'young' Adolphe Menjou and Marie Prevost, whose early demise was later scrutinized by Kenneth Anger and Nick Lowe).
https://www.google.com/search?q=lubitsch+marriage+circle&espv=2&biw=1262&bih=951&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4u9mh1OjKAhWJ0h4KHY8RAMsQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=lubitsch+marriage+circle+egg&imgrc=TGpcBhOXXjJcyM%3A
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/thovena-actors/imgs/6/2/62ade80a.png
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
just saw Design For Living and could not believe it. kept waiting for the morality play, the downer ending, the comeuppance and man Miriam just gets the happiest ending imaginable, this film is from the future
― Milton Parker, Monday, January 2, 2012 5:08 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, April 14, 2013 8:34 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
Wow, this is so good. I disagree with the Criterion commentary person – when they have their muse Gilda by their side, George and Tom do their best and most successful work and can live outside society with money. If they go back to live in their dingy little flat, it'll be by choice.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 6 March 2016 03:36 (eight years ago) link
another retro underway in NYC, but this has some things I don't remember being shown before at FF.
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=68825
http://filmforum.org/series/the-lubitsch-touch
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 June 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
That Uncertain Feeling may be minor Lubitsch, but high marks to Burgess Meredith as an egomaniacal pianist whose idea of kicking off roleplay sex with Merle Oberon is bellowing "I AM WOTAN AND I HAVE COME TO EARTH!"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
Saw a couple more Lubitsch silents, incl this cute crossdressing number:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=non55zCjx8Y
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
and the other a sort of Taming of the Shrew in Bavaria. Emil Jannings in a comedy lead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Vn1I_Wdi0
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
For my 23rd E.L. film, a sorta reverse Taming of the Shrew, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Solid, funny second-tier Lubitsch, written by Wilder and Brackett.
Gary Cooper is much funnier with Ernst than with Capra, and Claudette Colbert pulls off one of those impossible good-natured wife-as-avenger roles. Very screwball: there's an early confrontation between Edw Ev Horton and Franklin Pangborn! Young David Niven surprisingly well-fit in a supporting schlemiel role.
http://www.rowthree.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Bluebeards-Eighth-Wife.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
The Oyster Princess is probably the funniest of his silents that I've seen, with spatial gags and knockout, staircase-laden sets that reminded me of... Jerry Lewis! A must-see (on Kino disc).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/image11/oysterprincess2.jpg
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/6520
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
wow that looks great, some amazing shots in that link
― rob, Friday, 15 September 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
The Oyster Princess seconded.
― Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
new bio by Joseph McBride
Everything is explained, every rabbit hole is excavated; virtually every film given what in some other book would be a casual mention is examined here in Talmudic detail. If you think, “I wish I knew more about that” about a movie or star, read on; you will. (His treatment of Mary Pickford’s possible anti-Semitic loathing of Lubitsch, and their collaboration on 1923’s “Rosita,” is a good example of exhaustive exploration.) But he also makes us believe Lubitsch deserves it, as do his evergreen films.
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/08/31/director-who-defined-classic-hollywood
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
Oh, this is excellent news - I absolutely adored his Capra biog back when I was in college
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
that was a massive one; i never finished it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
There have been some other Lubitsch books over the years but don’t recall a really good one so looking forward to this.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
I am only now, at last, watching a Lubitsch film ("Trouble In Paradise") for the first time and I'm thinking, "Uh oh. New favorite."
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link