Tag Archives: Ernst Lubitsch

The Shop Around the Corner – Ernst Lubitsch’s festive ‘touch’

Posted on 19 December 2010 by Jason Best

As you’ll have noticed, we’ve been pondering Christmas-themed movies a good deal on Movie Talk recently, but until now we’ve unaccountably overlooked Ernst Lubitsch’s classic 1940 romantic comedy The Shop Around the Corner. Set in the Budapest store of the … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile

Posted on 19 August 2009 by Jason Best

  “Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading →

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