S5E04c - The Shop Around the Corner [1940] with Adrian Martin

How Would Lubitsch Do It?

Critic Adrian Martin joins us for our final episode on THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. In our discussion, we deconstruct some of the film’s camera direction, discuss Lubitsch’s late-period style and his more subtle (yet still very much present) formalism, his structural methodology, his use of repetition, the dynamics between “art” and “craft”, and Lubitsch’s continuing influence.

We also, at long last, try to define the Lubitsch “touch”. Or maybe not.

Edited by Brennen King

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We present an episode of THE GULF SCREEN GUILD THEATRE starring Ernst Lubitsch, Claudette Colbert, and possibly Jack Benny.

WORKS CITED:

Game Space and Play Time: A Partial History of American Screen Comedy (Lubitsch, Sturges, Tashlin) by Adrian Martin

Adrian Martin's Review of THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

Innuendo by William D. Routt

Cinematógrafos - Edgardo Cozarinsky (Buenos Aires: BAFICI, 2010)

Acting Ordinary in The Shop Around the Corner - George Tolles