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Beautiful Friendships.(Movie review)
What is it with coincidence? Without it, movies could barely function: of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Bogart's place has to be the one into which Ingrid Bergman walks. His liquorish rant against the odds of her doing so is a clever trick from the writers of "Casablanca": it drains her arrival of silly contrivance and floods it, instead, with a sense of damnable romantic destiny. The big screen is crucial if that trick is to succeed: watch a Fritz Lang thriller like "The Woman at the Window" or "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" on DVD and you find yourself scoffing at the unlikely curves and switches in the plot, whereas the same setups, viewed in the ...
- Auld Lang Syne: a restored print of the silent classic Metropolis includes...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Roberts, Rex August 5, 2002 700+ words
...Wells declared the film "silly"--Fritz Lang's Metropolis now is revered as one...even before Metropolis was released in Germany, Lang's studio, UFA, and his U...veteran of World War I, Lang fled Nazi Germany to Hollywood where he wandered from studio...
- Missing Scenes Discovered From Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 2, 2008 700+ words
HAMBURG, Germany, July 2 /PRNewswire...the original version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" has...conclusion: "Metropolis, Fritz Lang's most famous film...new understanding of the Fritz Lang masterpiece." Following...
- The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Martin, Adrian March 22, 2001 700+ words
...opportunity to write four essays on Fritz Lang. At many moments along the way...biography by Patrick McGilligan (Fritz Lang: the Nature of the Beast, 1997...with Goebbels prior to fleeing Nazi Germany. Gunning asks us to note the imagery...
- Michael Minden and Holger Bachman, eds. Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Cinematic...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Testa, Bart March 22, 2002 700+ words
...and archivists over many decades. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) is one of...intertitles were reinstated) in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. This is...reconstruction has come closest to Fritz Lang's original, this possibility...
- Lovers, filmmakers, and Nazis: Fritz Lang's last two movies as...
- Magazine article from: Biography Tratner, Michael January 1, 2006 700+ words
In the 1930s, the filmmaker Fritz Lang fled Nazi Germany and remade himself into one of...something unusual: he went back to Germany to make two peculiar movies...made movies--Von Harbou in Germany, Lang in Hollywood. After the...
- From Berlin to Hollywood: echoes of expressionism in Fritz Lang's the Woman in...
- Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly Fine, David October 1, 2007 700+ words
...critical attention and admiration Fritz Lang's German and American films...control he enjoyed in Weimar Germany. This criticism is, of course...crime melodramas. Lang fled Germany in 1933 for Paris, despite...of his films were banned in Germany, Joseph Goebbels invited him...
- INTEREST IN FRITZ LANG REVIVED WITH `M' SHOWING AND BIOGRAPHY.(What's Happening)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Arnold, William October 3, 1997 700+ words
...Austrian-German-American film director Fritz Lang (``Metropolis,'' ``You Only Live...documentary, a startling portrait of Germany on the cusp of Hitler and a landmark...Venice, ancient China and 19th-century Germany. The film was a huge influence on Douglas...
- Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Allan, Sean July 1, 2003 700+ words
Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear. Ed. by...genesis of Metropolis, including reactions to the first screenings in Germany, the US, and the UK. Bachmann's lucid account is supported by the...
