The Love Parade

#7 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. That's it. I get it. I am 100% on board with this Ernst Lubitsch guy. I'd enjoyed a fair number of his films up to now, especially after he made the transition to Hollywood, and I'd even loved a couple of them. However this, his first full…

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Eternal Love

#19 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. Ernst Lubitsch's second to last mostly silent film (there's a dedicated soundtrack, but it's just music and some sound effects), Eternal Love doesn't hit the same peaks as his previous film, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, and it's more in line tonally with his historical melodramas.…

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

#1 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. This is the film that Ernst Lubitsch had been building up towards his entire career. His efforts to find and execute his voice had been growing increasingly successful over the previous few years, especially since he made it to Hollywood, and in The Student Prince in Old…

So This is Paris

#16 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. Based on a play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, Ernst Lubitsch's So This is Paris is the first time his writing partnership with Hans Kraly bore good fruit. A light comedic farce, a genre that Lubitsch obviously liked to tell stories in, it's the sort of…

Lady Windermere’s Fan

#10 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. I think Lady Windermere's Fan is one of the key silent films of Ernst Lubitsch. Not because I like it (I like it a lot) but because of what it means for Lubitsch and the kinds of movies he obviously wanted to make. It's an adaptation of…