Ich möchte kein Mann sein (aka "I Wouldn’t Like to Be a Man")
Ernst Lubitsch, 1918
One of the first collaborations between Lubitsch and the exuberant Ossi Oswalda, Ich möchte kein Mann sein [I Wouldn’t Like to Be a Man] is a concise sketch of society life in three acts. When Ossi’s uncle goes away on a business trip, a new guardian steps in to tame the distractable niece. But Ossi finds a way out of the house and into a grand ball… by way of a brazen cross-dressing scheme — and triggers what is perhaps Lubitsch’s most twisted finale.

Die Puppe (aka "Doll")
Ernst Lubitsch, 1919
“Four amusing acts from a toy-chest” — so reads the opening title of the comic masterpiece Die Puppe. [The Doll.] adapted by Lubitsch and co-scenarist Hanns Kräly from a libretto by A. M. Wilner (based in turn on a tale from E. T. A. Hoffmann). Ossi Oswalda stars in a double-role as both the mischievous daughter, and automatonic creation, of a wildly coiffed “dollmaker”. When a wealthy baron decides the time has come for his prudish nephew to take a wife, an uproariously ribald plot unwinds into what is perhaps the world’s first-ever sex-doll comedy.

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• Linear notes by Anna Thorgate
• Linear notes by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

DVD Release Date: January 25th, 2010
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Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• Linear notes by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

DVD Release Date: January 25th, 2010
Slimcase in a boxset

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• Linear notes by David Cairns

DVD Release Date: January 25th, 2010
Slimcase in a boxset

Emil Jannings plays King Henry VIII in the story of Anne Boleyn’s movement from the outskirts of the court, to the royal boudoir, and off to the chopping-block. Suffused with an atmosphere of entrapment that would not be out of place in later films by Fritz Lang, and prefiguring the stately contretemps in John Ford’s Mary of Scotland, Anna Boleyn proceeds with a deathward momentum unique in Lubitsch’s oeuvre.

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• Linear notes by David Cairns

DVD Release Date: January 25th, 2010
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Set in one of Lubitsch’s hallmark mythical kingdoms, Die Bergkatze [The Mountain-Lion / The Wildcat] finds Lubitsch in exuberantly expressionistic mode, employing a host of optical masks to create perhaps the most visually audacious comic spectacle of his career. Pola Negri plays the daughter of a band of thieves; seduction of army commander (and audience) ensues. Lubitsch’s personal favourite work of all his German films, Die Bergkatze represents a peak in both Lubitsch’s silent oeuvre and the silent cinema as a whole.

Aspect Ratio:
Pictureboxed - 1.36:1

Edition Details:
• Linear notes by Anna Thorgate

DVD Release Date: January 25th, 2010
Slimcase in a boxset