Peter Bogdanovich on Lubitsch Musicals
Filmmaker, historian, and friend of Criterion Peter Bogdanovich writes on Lubitsch Musicals in the New York Observer: "[Lubitsch] made the first great screen musicals, including the very first all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing, fully plotted musical-comedy in American picture history, The Love Parade (1929)... Parade is one of four musicals just recently released on DVD... and each of them is pure gold. I have to admit that these are... among my favorite movies of all time. There is an innocence and a sophistication combined that is enchanting, a sense both of mockery and celebration that is at once very funny and strangely touching."
