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2 days ago · Lang transforms Mabuse the man into an inextinguishable idea, fashioning the ultimate late-style B-movie. Mabuse may be dead, but what he represents remains very much alive. Not for nothing is “the whole Nazi nightmare” mentioned explicitly in Lang’s final warning against post-war complacency.
1 day ago · Fritz on Fridays: Western Union. Joshua Polanski July 5, 2024. On the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.”. Occasionally (but not too occasionally), Fritz on Fridays will also feature ...
1 day ago · One hundred years have gone by since Columbia Pictures was founded: The Big Heath by Fritz Lang and His Girl’s Friday by Howard Hawks are two of the masterpieces restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment, selected by Venice among the many films of the Majors that have contributed to making the history of American cinema so great.
Jun 25, 2024 · The series — and the fourth season in particular, which has a story line involving the gathering of Berlin’s criminal gangs — has been compared to “M,” the great 1931 thriller by the German...
Jun 29, 2024 · With “ Kalki 2898 AD ,” Telugu cinema filmmaker Nag Ashwin rifles through a century of sci-fi and fantasy extravaganzas to create a wildly uneven mashup of everything from Fritz Lang’s ...
4 days ago · Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment).
1 day ago · One hundred years have gone by since Columbia Pictures was founded: The Big Heath by Fritz Lang and His Girl’s Friday by Howard Hawks are two of the masterpieces restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment, selected by Venice among the many films of the Majors that have contributed to making the history of American cinema so great.
