Example sentences for: lubitsch

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  • You've Got Mail (which she co-wrote with her sister, Delia) is based on Ernst Lubitsch and Samson Raphaelson's The Shop Around The Corner (1940), one of the most enchanting comedies ever made.

  • One of the best things about Lubitsch's original is that its Austro-Hungarian, kitsch-laden universe (Nikolaus Laszlo's original play was set in a Budapest perfumery) barely conceals real economic desperation, and there are serious consequences when the two lovers clash and one of them gets fired.

  • In this Upper West Side update of Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner , Ryan plays a "lemony-fresh children's bookshop owner" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ) about to be put out of business by the discount megabookstore owner Hanks.

  • Pabst, and Ernst Lubitsch were the leading directors of their generation.

  • Ephron co-authored and directed the 1998 movie, You've Got Mail , a somewhat flatfooted update of the charming 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner (which was also the source material for the even more charming 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me ). You've Got Mail updated the earlier film's epistolary plot (two shopkeepers hate each other by day, each not knowing the other is the correspondent to whom he/she sends anonymous love letters by night) for the Internet age; in the new version, the two swapped messages via AOL.


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