S5E09a - Lubitsch and Poland with Mateusz Pacewicz [Feat. David Neary]

Screenwriter Mateusz Pacewicz ( Corpus Christi , The Hater ) joins us to discuss the films of Lubitsch from a Polish perspective. We cover To Be Or Not To Be’ s depiction of Warsaw, the history of Lubitsch’s collaborators such as Pola Negri, the dynamics of European immigrants in twentieth-century America, the nature of dark comedy and ‘lightness’, the nature of performance, lies, truth, identity, and nationality, and the tall tales of Andrzej Krakowski. David Neary also stops by for an encore discussion of Heaven Can Wait . Edited by Griffin Sheel. We have a Discord ! Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify NEXT WEEK: In our penultimate episode, Cahiers du Cinéma deputy editor Charlotte Garson joins us for a retrospective! WORKS CITED: Ernst Lubitsch in Warsaw - April 26, 1936, Kino no. 17