Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang was one of the pioneers of German school of Expressionism, one of the few auteurs, who was able to make the successful transition from silent cinema to the talkies, and who also paved the way for the film noir genre in the United States. This essay explores the distinctive role of Lang as an auteur in context of expressionist cinema by analyzing his two films Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). Suchismita deals with object-subject relationships in German expressionist cinema as well as...Read Full Story

Contempt (The Criterion Collection) Brigitte Bardot (Actor) , Michel Piccoli (Actor)   |   Format: DVD (44) Buy new: $19.99 32 used & new from $12.64 (Visit the Best Sellers in Foreign Films list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Jean-Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le M pris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director...Read Full Story

Film: Le Mepris Release date: 5th April 2010 Certificate: 15 Running time: 99 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang Genre: Drama Studio: Optimum Format: DVD Country: France/Italy Le Mepris is one of those films that divides critics and cineastes strongly. Some unreservedly hail it as a modern masterpiece of European cinema, while others find it a cold, detached film whose visual style doesn't compensate for its...Read Full Story

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this two-part adventure epic directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M, etc) in the UK for the first time on home video. Widely regarded as one of the most beautiful colour films in the history of cinema, Der Tiger von Eschnapur / Das indische Grabmal (Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic) is released on DVD on 18 April 2011. See synopsis and disc details below: Synopsis: Fritz Lang returned to Germany on the eve of the 1960s to direct this...Read Full Story

Between the brain that plans and the hands that build there must be a mediator. It is the heart that must bring about an understanding between them. -Fritz Lang (Brigitte Helm, Maria) It is Germany in the late 1920s. Artists, writers, and filmmakers are worried that dark and totalitarian forces could eventually take power. “German expressionism” is the name of the artistic school that tried to alert Germans about the political dangers surrounding them. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , the...Read Full Story

If you think Quentin Tarantino invented the splitting up of one movie into two then think again. Although it’s a trend at the moment, Fritz Lang pulled this stunt way back in 1958 with his Indian Epic . Believing audiences would be bored sitting through a movie pushing four hours he and the producers re-cut it into two instalments: The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb . It's a strange reason, really, given it was produced during the age of the historical-religious epic. Although...Read Full Story

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this two-part adventure epic directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) in the UK for the first time on home video. Widely regarded as one of the most beautiful colour films in the history of cinema, Der Tiger von Eschnapur / Das indische Grabmal (Fritz Lang's Indian Epic) is released on DVD on 18 April 2011. Fritz Lang returned to Germany on the eve of the 1960s to direct this enchanted penultimate work, a redraft of the diptych...Read Full Story

So I made it to the first showing at 4:30pm and WOW. All I can say is WOW! There were 25 extra minutes in this version from new footage found in Brazil. And it really made a difference. There were so many things I hadn't seen before and the story was much clearer in this version. Tomorrow I'm going to go through my DVD copy and see what wasn't there before. It was like seeing the Wizard of Oz for the first time on a large screen after only seeing it on television. I could see all sorts of...Read Full Story

Last Tuesday Paula Félix-Didier traveled on a secret mission to Berlin in order to meet with three film experts. The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years. After examining the film the three experts are certain: The find from Buenos Aires is a real treasure, a worldwide sensation. Metropolis, the most important silent film in German history, can from this...Read Full Story

The Complete Metropolis Alfred Abel (Actor) , Brigitte Helm (Actor) , Fritz Lang (Director)   |   Format: DVD 263% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 137 (was 498 yesterday) (343) Release Date: November 16, 2010 Buy new: $21.49 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Movers & Shakers in Movies & TV list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and...Read Full Story