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Lang's unnerving tale of a deranged child-killer (with Lorre in a star-making turn) is a riveting example of Expressionist filmmaking.

"...Directed by: Fritz Lang. Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens, Ernst..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Contempt

"...Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Fritz Lang, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot. It's..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Metropolis

"...with this much action, pathos, and smarts. It's not Fritz Lang, but it's mighty close...."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Silent Enemy

"...are the films of such artists as Maurice Tourneur, Fritz Lang, Buster Keaton, Roscoe “Fatty'' Arbuckle, D. W. Griffith,..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Batman Returns

Gotham City is once again riven with crime, so Michael Keaton and director Tim Burton's Batman save the citizens from the megalomaniacs.

"...City as could only exist in the nightmares of Fritz Lang, complete with an architecture even the most dedicated..."

June 26, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Destiny (Der müde Tod)

"...Directed by: Fritz Lang. Starring: Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke and..."

April 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Potpourri of Pages

On the Bookshelf

"...Director Fritz Lang once said, "My private life has nothing to..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Books Review

Two for One Times Three

AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New

"...In his native Germany, Fritz Lang established his reputation with the likes of Metropolis..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Metropolis

"...Directed by: Fritz Lang. Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich and..."

May 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

M

Fritz Lang's 1931 film M is remarkable for its modern editing and storytelling as well as for Lorre's bug-eyed performance as a serial killer preying on children.

"...D: Fritz Lang (1931); with Peter Lorre, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke,..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Review by Charles Conn

The Cinema of Dual Citizens

In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.

"...Quickly finding work and refuge in Hollywood, directors like Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Max Ophüls,..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, Fritz Lang's M, Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore,..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Age of Restoration

Reviled at the time of their release, silent cinema classics Metropolis and The Thief of Bagdad get their due at the Paramount Theatre this weekend.

"...original release in 1927. I refer, of course, to Fritz Lang's legendary Metropolis -- the first cast-of-thousands science fiction..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...attempt to make a new F.W. Murnau, or replace Fritz Lang (who famously fled to Hollywood in 1933 after..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gone Girl

When a lady vanishes, David Fincher holds the moral compass.

"...see what the dark shades of Edgar G. Ulmer, Fritz Lang, or even, obviously, Hitchcock might have done with..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Social Network

This retelling of Facebook's first contentious steps is a blisteringly entertaining film formed of a lovely amalgam of David Fincher's direction, Aaron Sorkin's screenplay, and Jesse Eisenberg's spotless performance as Mark Zuckerberg.

"...sad-eyed monster Peter Lorre once 'napped children to in Fritz Lang's M. Maybe it's a sly nod to the..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...art deco production design or a marathon screening of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films. It's a defining character trait,..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Kill Contemporary Film Criticism: Vol. 1.

"...time I saw Kane I had gone to see Fritz Lang's M, but because the print hadn't arrived they..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...6/2: The Big Heat (D: Fritz Lang, 1953)..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature

Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950

"...4/22 Fury (1936) D: Fritz Lang...."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature

For Ever Mozart

"...Contempt, starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, and Fritz Lang, is scheduled for a local theatrical run in..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...Grieg's Peer Gynt as prelude to a murder. In Fritz Lang's first sound film, the masterful M, we hear..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...enamored of the new "talkies" that their silent counterparts languished in film vaults as their notoriously unstable nitrates broke..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney

"...(1920-1991) finally model the big screen's proverbial glass slipper. Fritz Lang, John Ford, Josef von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, and..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

"...Desk Set (D: Walter Lang, 1957): Tue, 7/30, 9:30pm; Wed, 7/31, 7:15pm..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Feature

Scanlines

The Bicycle Thief

"...Case in point is 1952's Western Rancho Notorious (D: Fritz Lang; with Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer), which..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Feature

The Idolmaker

"...Beyond a Reasonable Doubt D: Fritz Lang; with Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Philip..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature

Spray Paint

"...back in time, back to the industrial age of Fritz Lang, Ridley Scott, George Jet­son. Drum machines, tensile electronics,..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 1

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 1-7

"...Joan Bennett. With his terrific leads and directorial style, Fritz Lang makes this story more delightfully creepy than it..."

July 1, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

How the Reich Manipulated Pop Culture in Hitler's Hollywood

The power of propaganda

"...attempt to make a new F.W. Murnau, or replace Fritz Lang (who famously fled to Hollywood in 1933 after..."

July 13, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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