Ernst Lubitsch

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q51562: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Ninotchka; The Smiling Lieutenant; Three Women (Lubitsch).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

After Hours (1985): 1 line

unmapped (comic technique) · them, directly: Ernst Lubitsch ⇒ After Hours (the host's read). The film's elegant timing and characterization is Scorsese flexing Lubitsch, his filmmaking hero.
“this is the movie where Marty gets to flex a little Lubich stuff, who was obviously a big filmmaking hero of his”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:39:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

You've Got Mail (1998): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Ninotchka, which they directed: Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
“I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (4) everyone in directing

director, Three Women (Lubitsch) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak)
director, The Smiling Lieutenant (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak)
director (The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’)
director, Ninotchka (Blank Check — Patreon, You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free))

Other (1) everyone in other

director whose timing Scorsese channels here (heard as 'Lubich'), After Hours (Blank Check with Griffin & David, After Hours with Alison Sivitz)

What was said about them, by kind

unmapped (1)

unmapped (comic technique): Ernst Lubitsch → After Hours. The film's elegant timing and characterization is Scorsese flexing Lubitsch, his filmmaking hero.
“this is the movie where Marty gets to flex a little Lubich stuff, who was obviously a big filmmaking hero of his”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:39:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.