It's the most sentimental month of the year, so we're turning to one of our most December-themed sentimental comedies: Ernst Lubitsch's classic tale of love and retail nightmares, THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER from 1940! The Shop Around the Corner gets remade pretty often, and it's easy to see why: the movie's a timeless, breezy delight. We're discussing what makes it timeless, including how the retail experience of the 1940's mostly hasn't changed and the enemies-to-lovers tropes. We're taking the opportunity to learn lots about Lubitsch, including his "true amorality", his relatively progressive ideas on sex in movies, and why we call it "the Lubitsch Touch." Never has it been more obvious that we did not attend film school.