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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING is a tepid marital comedy starring Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, and Burgess Meredith. Although it's directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch and has some amusing moments, the film drifts aimlessly along and was a disappointment considering the director and cast. Oberon and Douglas play a happily married couple whose relationship is disrupted when she becomes infatuated with a boorish...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Turner Classic Movies has a classy lineup of true holiday classics Wednesday, Dec. 24, including "The Bishop's Wife."
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
The enchantments become oppressive in this overwrought tear-jerker, which bares a startling resemblance to the Tom Hanks-starring Oscar winner.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 12/20/2008
LOS ANGELES -- Some viewers may find the trailer for "Valkyrie" -- in which an eyepatch-wearing Tom Cruise plays would-be-Fuhrer-assassin Claus von Stauffenberg -- to be the funniest thing since "Springtime for Hitler." That would be unfair. "Valkyrie," from what we can tell, looks far funnier th...
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Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Kristin here— This past weekend the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cinematheque played host to Stefan Drössler, the head of the Filmmuseum in Munich. The Filmmuseum is a major force in film restoration, and on Saturday we were treated to a much longer print of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1922 epic, Das Weib des Pharao, than had previously been [...]
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Letter from Here (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Stefan Drössler, director of the Munich Filmmuseum, presented two restorations over the weekend: the German version of Max Ophuls' Lola Montez and Ernst Lubitsch's 1922 silent Das Weib des Pharao (which translates as "Wife of the Pharaoh" but was released in English as "Loves of a Pharaoh.") The latter was accompanied by another one of David Drazin's marvelous live, improvisatory piano scores. Drössler...
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
DESIGN FOR LIVING was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins. Given the creators, I was hoping for something really special, but instead I found the film merely passably entertaining. Tom (March) and George (Cooper) are a pair of starving artist Americans in Paris; Tom is a playwright and George is a painter. The close friends each fall in love with Gilda...
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
DVD Video Review: Anthony Nield takes a look at Edition Filmmuseum's Region 0 release of this early German silent ripe for rediscovery.
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FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma have compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time. It is published this month in an illustrated book and was put together by 76 French film directors, critics and industry executives. Here are the 100 films: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton The Rules of [...]
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
DVD Video Review: Beginning a lengthy look at each of the new Paramount Centennial Collection titles, clydefro reviews Billy Wilder's classic romantic drama starring Audrey Hepburn.
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goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Best Actor Nominee, 1930 (paired with The Love Parade)Lost to George Arliss in Disraeli I'd argue that Maurice Chevalier didn't have much in the way of acting talent: he had charm and a certain lasciviousness, a knowing leer and a...
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Rodney Welch: The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
I saw this great Audrey Hepburn movie the other night: Love in the Afternoon , Billy Wilder's 1957 Paris-based romantic comedy, something of a wry homage to Wilder's great hero Ernst Lubitsch, but directed with very much of Wilder's own panache. Hepburn plays Ariane, an innocent, cello-playing young French girl who lives a sheltered existence with her father (Maurice Chevalier), a "love detective"...
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Voodoo Extreme (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Rhona Mitra steps into the starring role for a prequel that reveals the origin of the Lycan...
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NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
“To Be or Not to Be,” the WWII comedy revival that had the critics laughing for all the wrong reasons, will play its final show on November 16, Playbill reports. Steve on Broadway notes that date coincides with the Manhattan...
