Maybe you saw Six, the popular stage musical which features the six wives of Henry VIII. They dance, prance, sing. Each had an unfortunate ending, but audiences see the energetic side of each woman, ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Curiosity is a key factor of being a cinephile—maybe the ...

With “To Be or Not to Be,” director Ernst Lubitsch achieved something astonishing: He laughed in the face of the Nazis by creating a comedy that illustrates how their ideology makes them buffoons.

It’s a bold director who decides to remake an Ernst Lubitsch film, but François Ozon’s choice of “Broken Lullaby,” one of the master’s least known works and a drama to boot, probably seemed like a ...

Restored classic films from Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are among eight older titles set to play at next month’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. Lubitsch’s 1920 farce ...

KEENE, N.H. There is now a wonderful four-DVD set issued by Kino International called "Lubitsch in Berlin." The discs are available separately, and I want to report on two contrasting ones. Anna ...

Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s. But between the start of his career in his native Germany—his ...