Thursday, December 6, 2007
Meeting the "Other" Lubitsch
Living life as if it was a full buffet in a well-executed manner means poking at things that might be interesting.
Kino released a boxset of pre-Hollywood films of Ernst Lubitsch. One of the offerings is a documentary about Lubitsch's life in Berlin prior to coming to Hollywood and bringing a level of quality of class and entertainment that was definitely iconic. Lubitsch were his high profile films of the late thirties and forties--films like Heaven Can Wait and To Be or Not To Be.
I dug into the screening of the documentary "Lubitsch in Berlin" figuring it was going to be one of your average DVD box set extras, but found it to be exceptionally engaging. I had assumed Lubitsch to have been a refugee to the US due to Nazism, but Lubitsch came to the US in 1922 after already creating quite a body of work in Max Rheinhardt's theater, acting and then directing silent films, both comedy and epic.
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