The Lubitsch Touch
Saturday, October 8 through Thursday, November 3

With his mastery of innuendo and visual wit spiked with human compassion, Ernst Lubitsch continues to delight today. He first became known after World War I in Germany for his historical "super-spectacles." In Hollywood, he gravitated toward the musical and romantic comedies that made his mark. All films in this series are unrated.

AFI Member Passes will be accepted at all screenings in the Lubitsch series.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Picture yourself in Venice. Champagne, caviar, moonlight, and merriment. Jewel thieves Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins, seemingly a match made in heaven, enjoy the comforts of Italy... until lovely victim Kay Francis arrives on the scene.

DIR/PROD Ernst Lubitsch; SCR Samson Raphaelson, from the play The Honest Finder by Aladar Laszlo. US, 1932, b&w, 83 min.


Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Sat, October 8, 5:15; Mon, October 10, 6:45; Wed, October 12, 5:30 (Montgomery College Series Showing); Thu, October 13, 5:15

 

DESIGN FOR LIVING
Revel in this naughty ménage à trois in Paris! Commercial artist Miriam Hopkins loves and lives with both struggling playwright Fredric March and undiscovered painter Gary Cooper. It's a match-up of the Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne friendship. "One of the great comedies of the 1930s."--Writer/Producer Stephen Zito.

DIR/PROD Ernst Lubitsch; SCR Ben Hecht, from the play by Noel Coward. US, 1933, b&w, 95 min.


Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Fri, October 21, 5:00; Sat, October 22, 1:00; Sun, October 23, 5:15

 

NINOTCHKA
Bolshevik "special envoy" Greta Garbo keeps bumbling Paris emissaries Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski sweating borscht--until she discovers the joie de chapeau with Count Melvyn Douglas. Garbo's first foray into comedy proved her biggest success--even though, rumor has it her on-set laugh came out soundless!

DIR/PROD Ernst Lubitsch; SCR Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch, from a story by Melchior Lengyel. US, 1939, b&w, 111 min.


Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Sun, October 23, 1:00; Mon, October 24, 4:20

 

HEAVEN CAN WAIT
C. 1890, sinner Don Ameche knocks on the door of Hell. But devil Laird Cregar wonders, does he qualify? Lubitsch's first color film.

DIR/PROD Ernst Lubitsch; SCR Samson Raphaelson, from the play The Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete. US, 1943, color, 112 min.


Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Sun, October 30, 6:40; Thu, November 3, 7:00

 

BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE
Many-times-divorced zillionaire Gary Cooper goes shopping for pajama pants--Claudette Colbert needs only the tops. Of course, the Riviera setting doesn't hurt Colbert's already stunning presence in this first of 14 Brackett-Wilder collaborations. "Elegant from first scene to last, brightly paced, written and played."--film historian William K. Everson.

DIR/PROD Ernst Lubitsch; SCR Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, from the play La Huitime Femme de Barbe-Bleu by Alfred Savoir. US, 1938, b&w, 80 min.


Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Tue, November 1, 5:00; Wed, November 2, 8:20; Thu, November 3, 5:15



 

 

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