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Director: Ernst Lubitsch Year: 1942 Run-time: 1 hr 39 min - This movie feels separate from any earlier or later genre in film. It's first and foremost a comedy, but in a harrowing setting pulled from an ongoing tragedy in another part of the world. The characters are Poles - including a prominent Jewish character - that speak with American accents and deal with relatable and often petty trifles pulled from any screwball comedy of the era, set in the emerging context of Nazi invasion. Lubitsch had the daring intent to humanize an urgent contemporary event in human history, and did so in a way that would be novel to his audiences, and a little uncomfortable to those of our time, given that there's no sense of actual Polish culture or heritage here. But our time has not been able to produce popular mainstream films that deal with international conflict - where are the great popular films about the Syrian crisis for example? It's not as daring as The Great Dictator , or as good...

Director: Ernst Lubitsch Year: 1932 Run-time: 1 hr 23 min Source: Flixfling Notable For : We're in the middle of a sudden influx of great American comedies, and Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise  is one of the best.  It's not quite screwball comedy, but it has a wonderful energy (like Love Me Tonight ), and like the best escapist entertainment, there's never any real sense of danger or inescapable drama to the proceedings.  Lubitsch is a director I was looking forward to - his films have an ineffable energy (the famous "Lubitsch touch") - somehow he plays to the best of his actors' strengths, and the three leads in this film are all iconic in their own way.  You know you're in for a great treat from the very first moment. Verdict : This is one that I'd love to return to, to reveal to newcomers.  So many great scenes, little details that stand out.  The way that Herbert Marshall runs up and down stairs, barely moving his upper body as his feet s...