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 safe to say that for most of today's cineastes, the name Ernst Lubitsch is more familiar than the work. After all, the director known for "the Lubitsch touch" made his first feature in his native ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1943, the playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson received word that Ernst Lubitsch, the Berlin-born director of such incandescent Hollywood comedies as “Trouble in Paradise,” ...

From the terrace of The Willows, the winter home of famous New York attorney Samuel Untermyer on Jan. 25, 1931, the world-renown physicist Albert Einstein made a pronouncement: "This is so beautiful ...