Pierrot le fou, Walker, and Lubitsch Musicals
Three February releases are profiled in the Philadelphia City Paper: Pierrot le fou, presented in an "eye-popping transfer," is "vibrantly alive in every moment, a tragic intellectual slapstick comedy." "Criterion is gambling that 20 years is room enough for reappraisal" of Alex Cox's manic, long-maligned Walker, which screened recently as part of the Film Comment Selects series at Lincoln Center. And reviewing The Smiling Lieutenant, part of the Eclipse set Lubitsch Musicals, Sam Adams writes that "the movie's wicked charms are irresistible, presaging the daring, even shocking forthrightness of Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise."
