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The Doll (1919)
Topic Started: Jan 24 2008, 08:11 AM (129 Views)
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Ya wanna know whom we love here In The Balcony? Well, we love a lot of people (and if you're out there reading this, Parker Posey, know that YOU are one of 'em, babe) but one we love a lot is the incomparable Ernst Lubitsch, who gave us some of the wittiest, funniest, and most charming movies that we've ever seen. Us Lubitsch fans (I think we're called Lubitches) are ecstatic these days, pretty much: Criterion has a boxed set of his early musicals coming, and Kino has a recent release called Lubitsch in Berlin, featuring 7 movies (1919-1921) on 5 DVDs ($79.95). Titles include archival 35mm restorations of Anna Boleyn, The Doll, I Don't Want to be a Man, The Oyster Princess, Sumurun, and The Wildcat, plus a new documentary.

The earliest film in the set, The Doll, is a real charmer... a quite fey young man (to put it nicely, he "doesn't like women") has to get married to claim his inheritance. No problem: he marries a life-size robotic female created by a daffy scientist/inventor/clockmaker. Only the robot was accidentally smashed, and the scientist's daughter has secretly taken its place. Whimsical, and the typical German expressionist sets are warped, not towards Caligari, but towards Toyland. Great fun.

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