Tagged: Fritz Lang

April 29, 2024

Monday Movie: Metropolis, by Jason Eaken

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Metropolis originally ran as part of our top 100 movies list. Sometimes the earliest cinematic examples of a given genre are only as useful as the...

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July 11, 2022

Monday Movie: The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb originally ran as a theatrical review. Fritz Lang’s Indian epic, the two-part The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb, is...

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September 28, 2020

Criterion Prediction #260: Destiny, by Alexander Miller

Year: 1921 Title: Destiny (Der Müde Tod) Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Lil Dagover, Berhard Goetzke, Walter Jannsen, Hans Sternberg Synopsis: A young couple is traveling to a small village. They give a ride to a mysterious stranger who happens to...

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December 17, 2019

6 Directors You Won’t Believe Have Never Won An Oscar!

Guy Ritchie In 2000, Guy Ritchie took the world by storm with his directorial debut Snatch, starring Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro. The film set a new standard in filmmaking, but it was just too daring for Academy voters,...

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November 21, 2019

Criterion Prediction #216: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, by Alexander Miller

Title: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Year: 1960 Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter van Eyck, Dawn Addams, Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters Synopsis: After the mysterious death of a reporter, a blind clairvoyant and wealthy industrialist courts a...

david bax / monday movie / movies

September 30, 2019

Monday Movie: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, by David Bax

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. For better or worse, they don’t make them like this anymore. Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler is a towering early achievement in cinema. This was five years...

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September 26, 2019

The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb: Fritz Lang’s India (Sort Of), by David Bax

Fritz Lang’s Indian epic, the two-part The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb, is not generally mentioned among the auteur’s great works. And, truth be told, it probably shouldn’t be. Despite its troubling shortcomings, though, it bears some undeniably...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

September 23, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #25: M, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. Fritz Lang’s first “talking picture”...

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July 22, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #43: Metropolis, by Sarah Brinks

movies / Rep-port / scott nye

May 12, 2017

The L.A. Rep-port: 5/12 to 5/19, by Scott Nye

The Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in the city. On Saturday, The Silent Treatment at Cinefamily is showing my favorite silent Ozu film (and one I actually wrote about for this very...

Tagged: Fritz Lang

Monday Movie: Metropolis, by Jason Eaken

Monday Movie: The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #260: Destiny, by Alexander Miller

6 Directors You Won’t Believe Have Never Won An Oscar!

Criterion Prediction #216: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, by Alexander Miller

Monday Movie: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, by David Bax

The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb: Fritz Lang’s India (Sort Of), by David Bax

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #25: M, by Sarah Brinks

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #43: Metropolis, by Sarah Brinks

The L.A. Rep-port: 5/12 to 5/19, by Scott Nye

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