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The 10 Best English Language Propaganda Films of World War II

The 10 Best English Language Propaganda Films of World War II

“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell observed. Indeed, these 10 Best English Language Propaganda Films from WWII are quite artful with their propaganda.

‘Heaven Can Wait’ and Lubitsch’s Love of Romance’s Paradoxes

‘Heaven Can Wait’ and Lubitsch’s Love of Romance’s Paradoxes

Heaven Can Wait is Lubitsch’s most successful film due to his ability to turn a period-piece into an enchanting story about the human condition.

Slouching Toward Redemption: Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Heaven Can Wait’

Slouching Toward Redemption: Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Heaven Can Wait’

There's a rotten core at the center of Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait. No matter how engaging I find Haskell and Sariss's enchantment with the film, I cannot accede to their critical adulation of it and of Henry.

‘Design for Living’ Is a Raunchy, Stylish, Pre-code Gem

The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli

‘Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany’ Is a Bleak, Disturbing and Well-Argued Book

Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals

Heaven Can Wait: Criterion Collection (1943)

Ernst Lubitsc’s ‘Trouble in Paradise’ Only Glitters on the Surface