How To Use Lubitsch In A Sentence
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Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
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Before Lubitsch’s arrival to California from Germany in 1922 (to make a Mary Pickford vehicle called Rosita), Hollywood films were under the overwhelming influence of D.W. Griffith, circa 1908 through the epoch-making The Birth of a Nation in 1915 and beyond.
The Importance of Seeing Ernst
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Lubitsch also had a knack of getting uncharacteristically good performances out of his actors.
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A parenthetical remark from Craig Keller: "One barely cognates Lubitschian mise-en-scène; apprehension happens faster than you can incant 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!'
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/11.
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A parenthetical remark from Craig Keller: "One barely cognates Lubitschian mise-en-scène; apprehension happens faster than you can incant 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!'
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/11.
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As I've written before, since Lubitsch was a very controlled and controlling director who coached all his actors in their exact movements and line readings, he could never bring himself to delegate power to the songwriters or choreographers, which is what you often need to do in a musical.
Archive 2007-11-01
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DeMille had great enthusiasm for the work of directors who were his diametric opposites: the exquisite Fabergé miniatures of Lubitsch, the poeticized emotionalism of Capra.
Empire of Dreams
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Well, this is Paris, M-G-M – a fantasy world of charm and merriment, and of that fabled "Lubitsch touch," which implied charm, provocative circuitousness and gaiety, combined with a slightly bittersweet awareness that all happiness is transient – but isn't it swell while it lasts!
The Awful Truth Gives Michael Moore a New Channel, and Some New Targets
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It made its presence felt in turn-of-the-century vaudevilles and was crucial to many Hollywood comedies in the years surrounding World War II, particularly the films of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
