Episode 629: Ninotchka (1939)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Otto Bruno and Robert Bellissimo join Mike to look at Ernst Lubitchs’s 1939 film, Ninotchka. Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch, and based loosely on a story by Melchior Lengyel, the film stars Greta Garbo as the titular Ninotchka, a stern Soviet sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from a Russian noblewoman, Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire).

Professor Joseph McBride -- author of How Did Lubitsch Do It? and Billy WIlder: Dancing on the Edge -- talks about these two talented men and what happened when they worked together.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Andrew!
0:36.2	The I'm Oh!
0:38.3	Oh!
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0:40.3	Oh! Ha! Oh! Oh!
0:56.0	Oh!
0:57.0	Oh!
0:58.0	Oh! Go to bed, little father. We want to be alone.
1:25.6	Please.
1:28.3	You like me just a little bit?
1:31.3	Your general appearance is not distasteful.
1:34.3	Thank you.
1:36.3	The whites of your eyes are clear.
1:39.3	Your cornea is excellent.
1:41.3	Your cornea is terrific. Love isn't so simple, Ninojka.
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