Circa 1928, the famously bemonocled, infamously dictatorial director (directator?) Fritz Lang hit a rough patch in his career. His classic-to-be Metropolis had nearly bankrupted its parent studio, UFA ...
Fritz Lang’s anti-Nazi film “Man Hunt,” a bittersweet World War II love story, seems removed from the weighty theme of fighting fascism. But it only seems that way. Lang’s opening text sets the ...
O delirium! O fever dream! Film Movement Classics hits us between the ocular orbs with a Blu-ray 4K restoration of Fritz Lang’s two fabulous epics that were largely overlooked and maligned until the ...
Hot on the heels of the news that Fritz Lang's futuristic art-deco masterpiece, Metropolis, has entered the public domain, Rocko Jerome and his team have found a clever way to adapt the cult classic ...
Patrick McGilligan’s biography of iconic German director Fritz Lang seems to have been founded on the idea of disproving a quote attributed to the visionary filmmaker: “My private life has nothing to ...
Lang's classic 1927 silent film, which was set in 2026, predicted a world that now looks eerily familiar, with a robot hinting at the future direction of AI. Flying vehicles gliding between towering ...
When Fritz Lang made “The Tiger of Eschnapur” and its sequel “The Indian Tomb” in the late 1950s, the two films had already existed in the director’s imagination for almost 40y years. In 1921, Lang ...
A new definitive version of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis is set to premiere next Friday in Germany. Rumors have been swirling for some time now about a possible restoration of the original edit ...
Fritz Lang, one of the great directors of movie history, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85. Austrian-born Lang was responsible for two of the great classics of the golden age of the ...