Vancouver folks! @willaross.bsky.social and I's debut feature, PREFACE TO A HISTORY, will be playing at VIFF tomorrow! Holy moly! Here's our trailer. Extremely excited to share this in a nice room with large seats.

PREFACE TO A HISTORY Trailer | VIFF 2024

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A momentous occasion for How Would Lubitsch Do It?, in which we finally talk a film from (drumroll) this century! Matt Severson once again stops by to discuss THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Wes Anderson's great ode to Zweig, Lubitsch, and Mitteleuropa in all its forms.

S5E8.75 - Wes Anderson and The Grand Budapest Hotel [2014] with Matt Severson — Moving Image Agency

Matt Severson returns to discuss Wes Anderson and The Grand Budapest Hotel . We discuss Lubitsch’s clear influence on the film, Anderson’s use of fabulist distancing techniques, common attitudes abou...

Can someone please explain why I've suddenly gotten like ~100 new followers in the past day?

HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT returns with a discussion featuring Noah Isenberg about one of Lubitsch's most prominent disciplies - Billy Wilder - and one of his greatest achievements, ONE TWO THREE!

S5E8.5- Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three [1961] with Noah Isenberg — Moving Image Agency

A momentous and melancholy episode of HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT featuring @dcairns.bsky.social in which we discuss the end of Ernst Lubitsch's life - his last productions, his death, and his legacy.

S5E08 - Dragonwyck, A Royal Scandal, That Lady In Ermine, and the Death of Ernst Lubitsch with David Cairns — Moving Image Agency

Finally dug up the original source of Slawomir Idziak's famous "Let it be shit green!" story about how the look of DEKALOG V / A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING came about. One of the great aesthetic origin stories in cinema. (Interview w/ Lindsay Amos, Cinema Papers, 1995)

How Would Lubitsch Do It? is, for this week only, How Would Otto Preminger Do It! Eloise Ross joins us to discuss Preminger's 1944 noir, LAURA.

S5E07.5 - Otto Preminger's Laura [1944] with Eloise Ross — Moving Image Agency

Our latest episode of How Would Lubitsch Do It, featuring @willaross.bsky.social, is here! Come for the HEAVEN CAN WAIT talk, stay for the thorough rundown of what happened at Fox in the 1970s when they trashed their technicolor archive. True story!

S5E07 - Heaven Can Wait [1943] with Willa Harlow Ross — Moving Image Agency

It's been a while since I did a pod but I had a blast with @dagscott.bsky.socialwww.movingimageagency.com/ernstcast/s5...

S5E06b - To Be Or Not To Be [1942] with Peter Labuza — Moving Image Agency

How Would Lubitsch Do It's second of two episodes about TO BE OR NOT TO BE - featuring @labuzamovies.bsky.social - is out now! We discuss the film’s production history, subversions of comedic structure, unusual tonal arcs, undercutting fascist ideology, and Rudolph Mate’s cinematography!

S5E06b - To Be Or Not To Be [1942] with Peter Labuza — Moving Image Agency