Movies

January, 1999

Moviemakers are so awash in cynicism and irony nowadays that the only way they can approach romanticism (other than in a metaphysical treatment such as City of Angels or What Dreams May Come) is to call on the past--when both filmmakers and their audiences took love seriously.Hollywood's latest romantic comedy, You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is a remake of the superb 1940 movie Shop Around the Corner, which was directed by the master of sophisticated comedy, Ernst Lubitsch. (Hanks...