The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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The best thing about You've Got Mail, Nora Ephron's remake of Ernst Lubitsch's delightful The Shop Around the Corner , is that its modernity is mostly for show.
Director Nora Ephron wrote the screenplay with Delia Ephron, based on the 1940 movie The Shop Around the Corner.
(As does its inspiration, The Shop Around the Corner.
Written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on The Shop Around the Corner, screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, and on Parfumerie, a play by Miklós László.
However, in Nora Ephron's latest romantic comedy, You've Got Mail (an update of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 movie, The Shop Around the Corner), all that's required of these two popular performers is that they effervesce.
Now it's my job to make readers aware of Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), which writer/director Nora Ephron has remade as You've Got Mail.
…long with Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Billy Wilder's 1960 Oscar-sweeper The Apartment elevates the workplace romance into a sublime erotics of officious addresses (the omnipresent Mister and Miss) and economic conundrum.
At the funeral of Ernst Lubitsch, the great director of "To Be or Not to Be" and "The Shop Around the Corner," Billy Wilder is said to have exclaimed, "No more Lubitsch!"
Normally, whether it be in a sitcom like The Honeymooners or Perfect Strangers or a movie such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , The Shop Around the Corner , While You Were Sleeping , About a Boy , and numerous titles involving Shakespearean disguise or Pygmalion -inspired wagers, and even the fantastical varieties like Aladdin , Splash , any body-swap film, it’s a love interest who is most hurt by the secret or lie, after which the lying party must make it up to him or her to set things right.
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Novelist Becky Albertalli and 'This Is Us' screenwriters Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker use the anonymous pen pal device from such films as "The Shop Around the Corner" and "You've Got Mail" as their obstacle and up the ante with a blackmail threat with all kinds of romantic fallout, but it is their finely tuned situations and sharp dialogue delivered by a thoroughly charming cast that makes this "Simon" something special.
But a few rough patches aside (there’s just no getting around it: Allen’s dialogue has grown increasingly stilted and theatrical over time) I found Paris to be a delight, a witty, light-hearted confection that brought to mind classic studio comedies from Hollywood’s Golden Age, like The Shop Around the Corner and It Happened One Night.
By comparison, Zack and Miri Make a Porno looks like The Shop Around the Corner.