To fans of American film, the German director Ernst Lubitsch’s name is synonymous with talky comic class acts like Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938, starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper), Ninotchka (1939, tagline: “Garbo laughs!”), and The Shop Around the Corner (1940, bickering James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan fall in love by mail). How parochial we are! How about all his work in Berlin? This fall, Seville’s opulent Teatro de la Maestranza screens Lubitsch’s silent Carmen of 1918. That’s some accolade, given the character’s Seville connections. We’re told that the Polish firecracker Pola Negri burns a hole in the screen as the cigarette roller who eats men for breakfast. For your listening pleasure, Nacho de Paz conducts the city’s royally chartered orchestra. Bring castanets? —Matthew Gurewitsch