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Movies these days are dim, flat, dull. You know it, we know it, everyone seems to know it. But is it true? To sort through the wreckage of this discourse, today's @FilmFormally gets back to basics with a Willa-and-Devan-hash-it-out special. [Link in replies.]

This entire experience - hundreds of hours of research, recording, and editing - has been a surreal and gratifying one, and everyone’s contributions have meant a great deal to me. Onwards to whatever's next?

Thanks in particular to @Vocrobot for editing an absolutely unreasonable amount of these episodes, and thanks to Ernst Lubitsch for reasons that should be all too obvious.

...@WhitStillman, @AdrianMartin25, @JoseArroyo16, @LanceStLaurent, Tim Brayton, William Paul, Dara Jaffe, Gary Jaffe, @labuzamovies, Willa Harlow Ross, @EloiseLoRoss, @dcairns, @NoahIsenberg, Matt Severson, Mateusz Pacewicz, and Charlotte Garson.

...Patrick Keating, Jennifer Fleeger, @ferrifrigida, @feuilladist, @WillSloanEsq, Lea Jacobs, @tangoldman. Krin Gabbard, @jwordfish, Ray Tintori, Z Behl, @SignalsToNoises, Scott Eyman, Imogen Sarah Smith, @CCassingham, @thescrewballgrl, @GriffLightning, @RealKevinBahr...

Thanks to everyone who hopped on the show: Lauren Faulkner Rossi, @franhoepfner, @bramruiter, @lucimarz, @firewalkwjaime, @maddiewhittle, Paul Cuff, Kristin Thompson, Stefan Droissler, @RasberryRazz, @sarahshachat, James Penco, @dave_kehr, @JuliaSirmons, @DeusExCinema...

Well, the end of HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT arrives today with our episode with Tim Brayton on CLUNY BROWN (1946). It's a bittersweet one only in the sense that there's nothing left to cover - this has been among the more rewarding adventures of my life thus far!

Two days until the big dead-German-director podcast ends...

A fortuitous late addition for our penultimate episode of HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT (@filmformally): Cahiers du Cinéma deputy editor Charlotte Garson joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of Lubitsch's pet themes and influence as we begin to close out the podcast.

A last-minute addition to HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT! Screenwriter Mateusz Pacewicz (CORPUS CHRISTI) joins us to discuss the intersections between Lubitsch and Poland, and @DeusExCinema returns for a final word on HEAVEN CAN WAIT. This one's for the completionist freaks among us.

A momentous occasion for How Would Lubitsch Do It?, in which we finally talk a film from *this century*! Matt Severson stops by @FilmFormally to discuss THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Wes Anderson's ode to Zweig, Lubitsch, and Mitteleuropa in all its forms. movingimageagency.com/ernstc…

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HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT returns with a discussion featuring @NoahIsenberg about one of Lubitsch's most prominent disciplies - Billy Wilder - and one of his greatest achievements, ONE TWO THREE!

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A unique episode of HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT (@FilmFormally) this week: a reading of frequent Lubitsch collaborator Samson Raphaelson's eulogy/memoir 'Freundschaft', as published on May 11, 1981 in The New Yorker.

And while we're at it: @dcairns absolutely knocked this recording out of the park, and his contributions to the show as a whole have been absolutely essential. My immense gratitude for helping me tackle such a heavy episode.

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Today: a momentous and melancholy episode of HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT featuring @dcairns in which we discuss the end of Ernst Lubitsch's life - his last productions, his death, and his legacy.

How Would Lubitsch Do It? is, for this week only, How Would Otto Preminger Do It! @EloiseLoRoss joins us to discuss Preminger's 1944 noir, LAURA. (SKIDOO may or may not make an appearance.)