tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19189721.post129621060646516470..comments2023-10-07T08:39:07.917-07:00Comments on Tom the Piper's Son: A Few Drops of LubitschTom the Piper's Sonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11276483798334833387noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19189721.post-74598610190784635312008-01-01T20:48:00.000-08:002008-01-01T20:48:00.000-08:00Great post. I was lucky to happen across the Crite...Great post. I was lucky to happen across the Criterion <I>Trouble in Paradise</I> in the library last year. I like Peter Bogdanovich's comment in the extras: "You think to yourself, 'This was made in 1932 for general audiences.' What happened?"Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19189721.post-53426536702450777642007-12-15T20:41:00.000-08:002007-12-15T20:41:00.000-08:00Trombonology!Thanks for the post. Lubitsch has bee...Trombonology!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the post. Lubitsch has been my favorite of late. <BR/><BR/>Actually, "Shop" is also my personal favorite of his films. In fact, i chose to write about it in a "research paper" just recently, so i was looking forward to putting a word or two in about something different about Lubitsch elsewhere and "Trouble" was next in line.<BR/> <BR/>I look forward as well to seeing the musicals. Lubitsch was a bit of a musician himself and a great listener as well. I think the musicality comes through in his pacing, the transitions between scenes, the undertones of emotion, his use of silence...certainly "Shop" is one a poem - i wouldn't trade it for any other film right now.Tom the Piper's Sonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11276483798334833387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19189721.post-57560675116935907112007-12-15T20:30:00.000-08:002007-12-15T20:30:00.000-08:00Thanks for the comment Persephone!reading your pos...Thanks for the comment Persephone!<BR/>reading your posts and that of my other pals, i don't know how i could've stayed away so long. Glad to hear Lucien is such a fine chap!Tom the Piper's Sonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11276483798334833387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19189721.post-67546591348258729702007-12-15T20:17:00.000-08:002007-12-15T20:17:00.000-08:00Ah, I adore Lubitsch! As I read the lines from th...Ah, I adore Lubitsch! As I read the lines from that delicious scene in <I>Trouble in Paradise</I>, I could just hear and see Herbert and Miriam. My favorite among Lubitsch's films, strangely enough, is one produced, not at his early thirties home, Paramount, but at MGM: <I>The Shop Around the Corner</I>. Such subtlety! Because of its plot, it doesn't suffer for having been produced after the stifling old Code had gone into effect. In February, the Criterion company will release a <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZM1MJG/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1PEYITY2CSMS1&colid=2S0QR97BO0Z7C" REL="nofollow">set of four Lubitsch pre-Code Paramount musicals</A>; I'm looking forward to becoming better acquainted with the Lubitsch touch. <BR/><BR/>I loved your two Lester Young posts; I am an ardent scholar of <I>Lesterese</I>.Trombonologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780935010435443785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19189721.post-80401464665971839272007-12-15T09:45:00.000-08:002007-12-15T09:45:00.000-08:00So glad to see that you're back on the blogging fr...So glad to see that you're back on the blogging front again! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your latest entry and just learned something new about a movie I had never heard of before.persephone2uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107746916879637272noreply@blogger.com