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Tag Archives: Ernst Lubitsch
catherine: rule by parlor trick
1787. Catherine’s triumphal tour to the Crimea. Catherine’s boat ride. The Empress was showing off the wonders of her realm, and they were many indeed. But were they real or were they fake. Only Potemkin knew for sure, and he … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Baxter, Catherine the Great, Ernst Lubitsch, F.M. Grimm, Friedrich Melchior Grimm, General Potemkin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montesquieu, otto preminger, Tallulah Bankhead, vincent price, Virginia Rounding, William Eythe
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moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou
Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers
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there’s plenty of room at the bottom
From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading
sarko for supper: the dinner game
Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dinner Games. Though in some respects Sarkozy does recall Louis de Funes and the comic posturing, the ideal context in which to place the French leader would be Francois Weber’s Le Diner des Cons. Sarkozy is … Continue reading
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Tagged carl theodor dreyer, Carla Bruni, Ernst Lubitsch, francis veber, french elections, ingrid pitt, Moliere, moliere the misanthrope, nikki six motley crue, nikki sixx, nikki sixx this is gonna hurt, Sarkozy, thierry L'hermitte, timothy carlson
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WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORIES
Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema history, Andrew Sarris, Arthur Koestler, Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Damian Cannon, Dave Thomson, Ed Sikov, Edward Bernays, Emma Lazarus, Ernst Lubitsch, Herman Melville, Holliday T. Day, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Laurence Maslon, Marilyn Monroe, Paul J. Karlstrom, Paul Karlstrom, Philip Kemp, Richard Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Tim Dirks, Victor Morton, William Holden
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NOBODY'S PERFECT … HEAVEN KNOWS THEY TRIED
”…Problem is, the only open slots are with Sweet Sue and Her All-Girl Society Syncopaters. As if high heels, girdles, and falsies weren’t tsouris enough, “Josephine” and “Daphne” must keep those testosterone levels down while in the sensuous proximity of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged American Cinema, Andrew Sarris, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Damian Cannon, David Thomson, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Greta Garbo, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Maslon, Mack Sennett, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Kemp, Pierre Schaeffer, Richard Armstrong, Robert Portfino, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, Tim Dirks, Tony Curtis, William Shakespeare
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