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Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2018
‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Humor, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Opera, Ernst Lubitsch, FilmStruck, Lubitsch touch, The Oyster Princess, Ossi Owalda, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sumurun, Pola Negri, Hollywood, Max Reinhardt, Dave Kehr, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar, operetta, Lorenz Hart, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, MGM, Paramount, Cedric Gibbons, The Lady Dances, The Shop Around the Corner, Budapest, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, Heaven Can Wait, Technicolor, Don Ameche, Laird Cregar, Samson Raphaelson, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Spring Byington

Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2015
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Your Movie Is an Act of Self-Negation, Charlie Brown! plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, The Peanuts Movie, Charles Schulz, Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson, Dalton Trumbo, Bryan Cranston, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, Ronit Bezalel, Brooklyn movie, John Crowley, Boy A, Nick Hornby, Love the Coopers, Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Madame Phung's Last Journey, My All American, Aaron Eckhart, Angelo Pizzo, The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzman, Spotlight, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy, Jack Arnold, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Field Museum Chicago, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, Craig Laurence Rice, Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks, Gus Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho, Irving Rapper, Now Voyager, Wim Wenders, Paris Texas, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord, Eric Rohmer, The Tree the Mayor and the Media Center, John Ford, Upstream, Dennis Scott, Light and Noir Film Festival, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce, Mostra: Brazilian Film Series, Polish Film Festival in America, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2015
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Fall movies on the march, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners and I, Stuart Sherman, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Rahmin Bahrani, Man Push Cart, Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile, Thomas McCarthy, The Station Agent, Steven Spielberg, The Sugarland Express, Denis Villeneuve, Incendies, Dreamcatcher, Brenda Myers-Powell, 4th Man Out, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Meet the Patels, The Mend, Sandra Luchino Visconti, The Transporter Refueled, Milos Forman, Amadeus: The Director's Cut, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Fred Camper, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Ernst Lubitsch, So This Is Paris, Jay Warren, Frank Capra Submarine, Dennis Scott, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival, Red Squads and Beyond 1960s to Present, Reel Abilities Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2015
Five movies you should watch tonight instead of the Oscars

And they're all streaming online!
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Weekly Top Five, Film, Young Mr. Lincoln, John Ford, Mafioso, Alberto Lattuada, Waking Life, Richard Linklater, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Ernst Lubitsch, I Don't Want to Be a Man!, Don Hertzfeldt, 87th Academy Awards, the Lego Movie

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2014
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Everyone else is wrong, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, Ben Sachs, Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal, CitizenFour, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Hellaware, J'Accuse, Abel Gance, E-Team, Human Rights Watch, Harmontown, Community Dan Harmon, Horns Daniel Radcliffe, The X-Ray of Civilization, Tom Rubnitz, David Wojnarowicz, Tommy Turner, Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Chicago Symphony Center, Cameron Carpenter, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Music Box Chicago, Albert Brooks, s Modern Romance, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roberto Rossellini, Open City, Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor, WIP Theater Chicago, Lee Kepraios, Mostra V: Brazilian Film Series, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, First Nations Film and Video Festival, Mitchell Museum, LaDonna Harris: Indian 101, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2014
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Tom Cruise, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Cold in July, Ben Sachs, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow, Words and Pictures, Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, George Cukor, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Across the River, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, Mads Mikkelson, Innocent Sorcerers, Andrzej Wajda, Maleficent, Angelina Jolie, Sleeping Beauty, Return to Homs, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain, Joe Pytka, Space Jam, William A. Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Gordon Green, Joe Nicolas Cage, Tivoli Des Plaines, After Hours Film Society, Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Particle Fever, Facets Cinematheque, Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists, Museum of Contemporary Art, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2014
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Krzysztof Zanussi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the rest of this week's hard-to-spell screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Zanussi, Camouflage Zanussi, The Constant Factor, Ben Sachs, The Dance of Reality, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Heroes for Sale, William A. Wellman, The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, American Jesus, Black Box, Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids, Chinese Puzzle, Cedric Klpaisch, When the Cat's Away, Cold in July, Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Just a Sigh, Emmanuelle Devos, Gabriel Byrne, Manakamana, Leviathan movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, The Supreme Price, M.K.O. Abiola, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Michael Snow, *Corpus Callosum, University of Chicago Doc Films, Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator, Music Box Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Up Pixar, Walter Hill, The Warriors, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2014
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God, Godzilla, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida, Music Box, Ben Sachs, Godzilla, The Cold Lands, The Immigrant, James Gray, Pharaoh, Gene Siskel Film Center, Martin Scorsese, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Blended, Eroica, Fed Up, Laurie David, An Inconvenient Truth, Katie Couric, God's Pocket, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pete Dexter, Ilo Ilo, Camera d’Or, Cannes film festival, Jellyfish Eyes, Takashi Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Logan Theater Chicago, Giorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, University of Chicago Doc Films, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Godzilla 1954, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around the Corner, Andrew Stanton, WALL-E, Alain Resnais, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Chicago Filmmakers, Tatsu Aoki, Logan Center for the Arts, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2014
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Godzilla vs. Hairy Who, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leslie Buchbinder, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Ben Sachs, Jon Favreau Chef, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, For No Good Reason, Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman, Godzilla, Music Box Chicago, Million Dollar Arm, Jon Hamm, Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, James Franco, Sepideh, Young & Beautiful, Francois Ozon, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, Nintochka, Asghar Farhadi The Past, Ratatouille movie, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Killing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2014
Another week, another great set of free programs at the U. of C. Film Studies Center

Noting free screenings of Ernst Lubitsch's silent feature Three Women and the recent Chinese opera adaptation The Inspector and the Prince
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Tom Gunning, David Drazin, Chinese opera films, The Inspector and the Prince, Zheng Dasheng, Ernst Lubitsch, Three Women

Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2014
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I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Darren Aronofsky, Noah movie, Ben Sachs, Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan, Child's Pose, Cinema Palestine, Mars at Sunrise, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, For a Woman, Diane Kurys, No God No Master, David Strathairn, On My Way, Catherine Deneuve, Transcendence movie, Johnny Depp, Watermark movie, Jennifer Baichwall, Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Melo, Ernst Lubitsch, The Merry Widow, Orson Welles, Othello, Gene Siskel Film Center, 10 Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Logan Theater Chicago, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre, Logan Center for the Arts, First Steps: The Early Works of Ruth Page and Sybil Shearer, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Found Footage Festival, Music Box Chicago, Poets of Protest, Facets Cinematheque, Manal Al Sheikh, Mazen Maarouf, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2014
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The Patio's last shows for a while, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Patio Theater, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin, Chicago Silent Film Society, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, Ann Dvorak, Christina Rice, Oculus, Scarface, Howard Hawks, Pickwick Theatre, Big Men, Rachel Boynton, Hateship Loveship, Alice Munro, Natural Life, Tirtza Even, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, The Railway Man, Colin Firth, The Unknown Known, Errol Morris, Donald Rumsfeld, Under the Same Sun, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Doc Films, Joyce Wieland, Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch, Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges, California Split, Robert Altman, Love Unto Death, Alain Resnais, Music Box Theatre, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2014
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Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Cheap Thrills, Dom Hemingway, Jude Law, Hide Your Smiling Faces, Joe Nicolas Cage, Joe David Gordon Green, Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Cuban Fury, Nick Frost, Shaun of the Dead, Documented Jose Antonio Vargas, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Draft Day, Kevin Costner, The French Minister, Bertrand Tavernier, 'Round Midnight, Life and Nothing But, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hawks and Sparrows, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Robert Altman Nashville, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Larry Clark, Passing Through, Joyce Wieland, Reason Over Passion, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Music Box, Alejandro Amenabar, The Sea Inside, Juan Jose Campanella, The Secret in Their Eyes, Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop, Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz, Logan Theater Chicago, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Patio Theater Chicago, Legend Tom Cruise, Pan's Labyrinth, Night of the Living Dead, Escape From New York, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 4, 2014
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CUFF, CLFF, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Gene Siskel Film Center, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel Comics, Ernest & Celestine, Finding Vivian Maier, Noah movie, Noah Russell Crowe, Nymphomaniac: Volume II, Lars von Trier, Sabotage Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Altman, Brewster McCloud, University of Chicago Doc Films, Macario Roberto Galvadon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mamma Roma, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 23, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Preston Sturges

Highlights from the filmography of Preston Sturges
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Preston Sturges, the Music Box, Unfaithfully Yours, Ernst Lubitsch, the Coen Brothers, Christmas in July, Sullivan's Travels, the Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2014
The Wolf of Wall Street and the tradition of grotesque comedy

Martin Scorsese's latest upholds a comic style that's at least as old as cinema itself.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Gross, Film, The Wolf of Wall Street, grotesque comedy, David Bordwell, The Navigator, Foolish Wives, The Oyster Princess, Ernst Lubitsch

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Dec 18, 2013
Recommended Video
The Coen brothers grow up

Inside Llewyn Davis is a tale of art and money.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Joel and Ethan Coen, Barton Fink, Greenwich Village, Oscar Isaac, Dave Van Ronk, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, A Serious Man, Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Fink, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Ernst Lubitsch

The best of Ernst Lubitsch
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, One Hour With You, Design for Living, Ben Hecht, The Shop Around the Corner, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Trouble in Paradise, Andrew Sarris, To Be or Not to Be, Jack Benny

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 12/8: The New Chicago Diner Cookbook release party, Natalia LaFourcade, and Ninotchka

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 8
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Diner, Jo A. Kaucher, The New Chicago Diner Cookbook: Meat-Free Recipes from America's Veggie Diner, Center on Halsted, Natalia Lafourcade, Joe's Bar, Mujer Divina, Ninotchka, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ernst Lubitsch

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2013
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Garbo, Divine, Bettie Page, and the rest of this week's domination screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Noam Chomsky, Chuck Jones, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Bettie Page Reveals All, Dredd, The Ghosts in Our Machine, I Am Divine, John Waters, Out of the Furnace, Scott Cooper, Crazy Heart, Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Siodmak, Christmas Holiday, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman, Return to Nuke 'Em High: Vol. 1, Admiral Theater Chicago, Film Strip, burlesque, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Dec 4, 2013
Recommended
Garbo is a Red ripe for romance in Ninotchka

Melvyn Douglas costars in the Ernst Lubitsch classic.
- By Dave Kehr
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Gene Siskel Film Center, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Billy Wilder, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2013
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A couple of smoke screens and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 30 and September 5
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Drew Hunt, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery, Terrence Malick, Charles Fairbanks, The Nightingale, Richard Linklater, "Before" trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah, Laurence Knapp, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, Northbrook Public Library, Greed, Eric von Stroheim, Gus Van Sant, Mala Noche, Doc Films, Patio Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Rebecca Hall, One Hour With You, Ernst Lubitsch, American Made Movie, The Attack, Closed Circuit, Eric Bana, Off Label, pharmaceutical industry, Saturday Morning Mystery, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2013
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Catching up with R.I.P.D before it dies, and the rest of this week's screenings

A summary of movies playing in Chicago from July 26 to August 1
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, R.I.P.D., Robert Schwentke, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Theatre, Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, Jeff Bridges, Mary Louise Parker, Blackfish, Girl Most Likely, Still Mine, The To Do List, Ernst Lubitsch, Lady Windermere's Fan, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Francis Ford Coppola, One From the Heart, Northbrook Public Library, Des Plaines Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Gone With the Wind, 4K DCP, The Sleeping Tiger, Joseph Losey, The Late George Apley, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Patio Theater, The Happy Poet, Paul Gordon, Red 2, Landmark Century Center, movies, Chicago, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2013
Further discoveries in the files of Claude Sautet: Cesar and Rosalie (1972)

Revisiting the French filmmaker's not-quite farce from 1972
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, On Video, Film, Claude Sautet, Cesar and Rosalie, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Yves Montand, Gene Siskel Film Center, screwball comedy, A Letter to Three Wives, Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Nobody's perfect—the best of Billy Wilder

Top five Billy Wilder films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Edgar G. Ulmer, Detour, Max Ophuls, Caught, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, auteurists, Cahiers du Cinema, Irma La Douce, Andrew Sarris, You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film, History and Memory 1927–1949, Love in the Afternoon, Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Ace in the Hole, Sunset Boulevard, The Emperor Waltz, Bing Crosby, The Major and The Minor, Gregory La Cava, Leo McCarey, Some Like It Hot, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Marilyn Monroe, The Apartment, Avanti!, The Lost Weekend, One Two Three

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