Three Women

#25 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. Reuniting with his regular writing partner from Germany, Hanns Kraly, Ernst Lubitsch followed up his delightful The Marriage Circle with another attempt at bridging the gap between tragedy and comedy in a domestic setting, and this doesn't quite click the same way the previous film did. It…

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Well, looks like I was wrong about Clint Eastwood…

Ending his career, that is. Reports that he's going to make one more movie, at least, titled Juror #2 and will star Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette. From World of Reel: The film would “follow a member of the jury of a murder trial who suspects he may have had some part in the victim’s…

The Marriage Circle

#14 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. Settling in Hollywood and freed from the whims of Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch moved from the independent distributor United Artists to the minor studio Warner Brothers where he was allowed to make the first film in his career that really feels like a Lubitsch film. He'd touched…

Rosita

#26 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. Mary Pickford loved Ernst Lubitsch's Anna Boleyn and wanted to work with the German director, so she imported him to Hollywood to give him a contract at United Artists, the production company she founded with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith. She was also dead set…

The Loves of Pharaoh

#20 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. Ernst Lubitsch's final German film was a conscious effort to appeal to American producers. He had made several large-scale historical, romantic tragedies, but he ended with his best of them with The Loves of Pharaoh. I still wouldn't quite call it good, though. Perhaps its part of…