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Spotlight on TO BE OR NOT TO BE with Alicia Malone
To Be or Not to Be • 7m 2s
In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, critic Alicia Malone unpacks Ernst Lubitsch’s brilliant political satire, one of the most acclaimed comedies of all time.
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE Scott Eyman Intro
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Lubitsch le patron
This 2010 French documentary, written by film scholar N. T. Binh and directed by Jean-Jacques Bernard, traces the career of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch from his early days in German cinema to his years as a Hollywood comedy legend.
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Pinkus’s Shoe Palace
Among Ernst Lubitsch’s greatest successes with his comic screen persona known as either Sally or Meyer, a slapstick Jewish stereotype, was the following 1916 film, PINKUS’S SHOE PALACE. After he retired the Sally/Meyer character, Lubitsch, himself Jewish, didn’t feature an overtly Jewish characte...
