The Lubitsch Line: Billy Wilder, Some like It Hot, and “The Lubitsch Touch”

Vintage film watching is like genealogical investigation. Sometimes engaging in a movie from decades ago can feel like you’re watching the quirks and obsessions of ghostly personalities long lost to the ether. But the truth is that with great movies, just like branching family trees, the apples fall and seed entirely new progeny, creating a continuum and a conversation between …