'The Shop Around the Corner' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- A. O. Scott looks back the holiday classic starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
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No one ever mentions the scene in which Mr. Matuschek describes his Christmas feast to Rudy before inviting him to dinner. I love that scene!
Yes, one of my fav scenes in this movie also. I get hungry just listening to Matuschek describing it.
That's one of the most exquisite scenes in the movie, poignant and joyful at once, given what we've just found out about the characters.
This is a brilliant and somewhat overlooked classic. The acting is superb and the characters finely drawn. The depiction of the respectable working class, their awareness of their status in society , their vulnerability and their desire to join the higher ranks, is accurately and poignantly portrayed. The desire of the characters to "improve" themselves, their pride in the literature they read, their attention to their dress the striving for a finer existence is beautifully illustrated.The pettiness of shop life ,as it once was, the determination to extract every ounce of respectability and importance from their relatively lowly station in life is accurately depicted, as is their integrity and respectability.My favourite character is Pirovitch , the eternally nervous ,kindly and wise salesman who has spent his whole life in retail and is resigned to it. His main concern and joy is his family. Petrified lest he should be put on the spot, every time the boss states, "I just want your honest opinion" Pirovitch runs for cover.The two main characters, Alfred and Clara, are both rather lonely and yearning for romance and happiness and security. Alfred just wants an "ordinary ,lovely girl" and Clara is looking for a man of refined feelings. It is a great film ,better in my view than Stewarts other much praised offering of "Wonderful Life", which is a good film but there is something about "Shop Around the Corner" that just strikes the right note. There is a sad nostalgia about it, a lost age of courtesy, innocence and pure romance, that never really existed in the way it is portrayed, although, of course , the times were vastly different from the coarseness of the modern age; and our knowledge that the little lives of the characters were on the brink of being swept away by war. One feels it ought to exist somehow and feel sorry and rather cheated that it doesn't. It's a lovely film ,well worth watching again and again.
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I know you wrote this comment on "Shop Around the Corner" five years ago, but I just saw it today and wanted to tell you that it is just lovely.
@@barbarak2836 Thank you very much Barbara, you are very kind. That class of worker has really disappeared now as retail is not a career in the way it was 80 -90 years ago ,or even 50 years ago. Retail is now only a career for university graduate students of management. In those days men,mainly men ,could be a salesman their whole working life and raise a family.
This particular study of romance between unremarkable people without glamour or eventful lives could not ,or would not ,fit with today’s societal attitudes and norms and such a story would not be told with the same innocent charm. The recent attempt to make a modern version, “you’ve got mail “ did not work, at least it not work for me.
The characters of the original have an appeal to our frail human condition and innermost need for love and happiness.
I just watched it for the very first time; that is how I wrapped up 2021. LOVED IT!
This movie is based on the very popular Hungarian play called Parfumerie by Miklós László from 1937 so the setting of the movie is not strange at all. As a Hungarian I actually think they nailed the actors for their roles, they were very believable as Hungarians, James Stewart reminds me of my late grandfather.
I love Rudi's reply to the Doctor, who has just called him a "delivery boy": "Please, Doctor! Do I call you a pill pusher?" Classic!
That was Pepi. Rudy was hired by Pepi as a replacement delivery boy after he promoted himself to clerk.
ttims - I also loved that scene when Mr. Matuscheck described his Christmas Feast to Rudy, who he invites to dinner on Christmas Eve. Loved it!
I really liked the scene when he fires the make lead James Stewart and gives him the months salary and makes him sign the receipt. And then gives him the perfect recommendation letter. And Stewart reads the letter and walks off.
Jimmy Stewart was a truly great actor!
this indeed is a what you call a Holiday Classic. Its warm, full of happiness and joy, with ordinary characters and their lives. Uncomplicated and character based this movie shows how to be original, funny, and romantic. This is a movie that deserves to make all time great lists. You cannot better this. Original and best.
love this movie way better than "you've got mail" which was just so bad, this was sweet and wonderful and the ending was so sweet.
You've Got Mail is secretly one of my favorite movies. It's amazing that it originated in such a tumultuous time, seventy years ago.
Elephants Fly if you think you've got mail is a great movie you really have to watch this one
I remember seeing this in an Ernst Lubitsch film festival in Paris in 1988...now THIS was simply overwhelming seen on the large cinema screen!
This movie is a gem! It’s should be treasured by all!!!
One of my favorite movies of all time. Totally underrated.
The Judy Garland-Van Johnson remake, In the Good Old Summertime, 1949, is a close iteration.
Some trivia that viewers are probably aware, of but I enumerate them anyway.
The pending Nazi invasion, which of course the movie never acknowleges, but the viewer is aware of, is the topic of another movie released in the same year as this one, with the same cast, Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, and Frank Morgan: The Mortal Storm, dramatically different in tone, a tragedy.
Margaret Sullivan & Jimmy Stewart starred together in a number of movies. By all accounts, she taught him to hone the acting craft. Rumors abounded of a love affair, but she was married at different times, including to Henry Fonda Stewart's best friend.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO comparison with "You've Got Mail" ! Shop was so much superior to the remake !
This is an excellent film.
Ja es berührte mich sehr. Vor allem die Schlussszene er
hält sie fest und sie sagt zu ihm. Dear Friend. Ja da kommen
mir die Tränen. Verirrungen und Verwirrungen bis zum guten
Ende. Wie schön dies ist. Ja. Besser als im Film mit
Meg Ryan und ihm ja Beate Magdalena.
I want this in my life so much, so bad lol.
Especially now.
This movie is perfect
Of the 5 top actors in this film, only Jimmy Stewart lived beyond 60 years old.
Purchased the DVD recently to play for my mom. We've watched many times in the past month. Can anyone help ? In the part where Jimmy Stewart's character says he's not had his pants tailored: Were pants tailored IF one was bow legged?
Perfect ending.
So much better than the Its a Wonderful Life that is sickly sentimental.
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Why aren’t these movies in the public domain? Do I have to wait til 2060 or 2080 to see it? It is a sin to profit from peaople who are already resting in peace.
Dont watch this video if you haven't seen the movie.
You've got mail
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