Ernst Lubitsch
Series
Criterion collection volume 291
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
5) Eternal love
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
During the War of 1806, French soldiers occupy a Swiss hamlet and order the villagers to surrender their rifles. Everyone but Marcus, a hunter in the mountains, complies. Marcus and Ciglia, the minister's niece, are deeply in love. But Pia, a wild mountain girl, vows to win him for herself.
6) Ninotchka
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Garbo plays a dour, severe Soviet official who comes to Paris on business involving the sale of some czarist jewels. But soon business turns to pleasure as she discovers the special magic of Paris and finds herself succumbing to the charms of a suave Frenchman named Leon D'Algout (Melvyn Douglas). The plot bubbles merrily as Ninotchka chooses between romance and duty--and must even confront a rival for Leon's affection in the exiled Grand Duchess...
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The commander of a remote fort (and his lovely daughter) eagerly awaits a new lieutenant. En route, he is captured by outlaws who roam the snow-covered mountains and the daughter of their leader quickly falls for the young officer, setting in motion an outrageous farce.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The doll (1919): When an effete young man must marry to inherit a fortune, he purchases a lifelike doll to wed.
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006): documents the life of the filmmaker from his birth in 1892 to his departure for Hollywood in 1923. Includes interviews and footage from his films.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Oyster Princess (1919): A comedy in which a pampered American oyster tycoon plans to find a prince to marry his much-indulged daughter, but things don't go his way.
I don't want to be a man (1920): While her father is away, a teenage tomboy impersonates a man in this gender-bending absurdist comedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 592
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult 'gentleman's' agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht (Notorious) from a play. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light.
19) Monte Carlo
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
An independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar and whisks away to the Riviera.
20) The love parade
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.