Tag: Ninotchka

March 12, 2015 /

#ThingsLittleOldMeLearnedFromFamousDirectors “I’ve been to Paris, France, and I’ve been to Paris, Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.” Ernst Lubitsch Translation: my life is film Okay, he’s one of the best, most diverse, directors there ever was… But this about sums it up about the mindset of the director. He just wasn’t…

September 23, 2014 /

Here’s the set up: Ninotchka commenting on western decadence – (looking at a ladies’ hat in a display window)  How can such a civilization survive which permits their women to put things like that on their heads? It won’t be long now comrades. And then she meets Melvyn Douglas and…