Anyone who enjoys the films of Ernst Lubitsch will want to take a look at the recent box set release by the UK-based Masters of Cinema Series called “Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies.” The package, which I’ve just reviewed for DVD Times, contains six Lubitsch silents made between 1918 and 1921 in [...]

It’s always nice to discover a previously unseen film with the power to surprise and enthrall you. Ernst Lubitsch is one of my favorite directors, easily on a short list of five or ten, but a lot of his movies aren’t available on DVD in R1. So while I’ve seen most of Lubitsch’s work after [...]

The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and adapted for the screen by Samson Raphaelson. James Stewart stars as a sales clerk in a small Budapest shop and top-billed Margaret Sullavan plays a newly hired shop girl in the same quaint little store. The plot point that usually grabs [...]