Orders placed from Friday 22 December will be processed after the festive season, starting on Monday 8 January. Happy Holidays!
Privacy preferences
This site uses essential cookies for its operation and tracking cookies to enhance your experience. Tracking cookies will be activated only with your consent.

Retrospettiva 2010: Ernst Lubitsch

  • Sale
  • Regular price SFr. 20.00


Volume for the 2010 retrospective dedicated to Ernst Lubitsch

Language: English
Editor: Locarno Festival

The Festival del film Locarno celebrates its 63rd year retrospective dedicated to Ernst Lubitsch with this highly readable book on the great German-born director. It traces the art of the master of comedy from his debut years in Germany to the culmination of his career in Hollywood. The directing style of the maker of Ninotchka, To Be or Not to Be and Heaven Can Wait is captured in original contributions from internationally known film critics, rounded off by a portrait written by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. The text is lavishly illustrated with photographs. This book is published on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to Ernst Lubitsch by the Festival del film Locarno in 2010 curated by Carlo Chatrian.

Edited by Joseph McBride. With contributions from Peter Bogdanovich, Frédéric Bonnaud, Rinaldo Censi, Carlo Chatrian, Jean Douchet, Joseph McBride, Olivier Père.