This year the Festival del Film Locarno pays tribute to German-born director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) with a retrospective. His oeuvre consists of To Be or not to Be, Ninotchka, and Heaven can wait, just to name a few. By many perceived as the inventor of the romcom (romantic comedy), Lubitsch caught the attention of Hollywood after a highly prolific career as an actor and director of comedy and lavish period pieces in Germany. In Hollywood his craftsmanship was so appreciated that his style became known as the Lubitsch Touch.
Joseph McBride, is an American screenwriter, professor on film and writer of several books on American film directors – such as Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra and John Ford. He is invited by the Festival del Film Locarno to hold an introduction to Lubitsch-films. Joseph McBride talked to Strongman Sandow about the Lubitsch touch, German vs. US-Lubitsch and the influence of Lubitsch on American cinema.
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