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Jan 13, 2023 · 175 views 6 months ago. A scene from Fritz Lang's film 'M' (1931), where the we see murderer's reflection in the mirror with the voice-over of a graphologist analyzing his handwriting...
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Aug 3, 1997 · Early in the film we see Becker looking at himself in a mirror. Peter Lorre at the time was 26, plump, baby-faced, clean-shaven, and as he looks at his reflected image he pulls down the corners of his mouth and tries to make hideous faces, to see in himself the monster others see in him.
With the medium shot of Beckert looking at himself in the mirror, he becomes physically present onscreen, and his dichotomous self begins to become exposed. The shadow persona, although still extant, has become complicated, as conveyed with the use of brighter lighting.
Sep 9, 2022 · Long before Hannibal Lecter, Patrick Bateman, and Norman Bates, there was Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre in his breakout role), the child murderer at the heart of Fritz Lang's landmark 1931 German ...
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If one is to take Fritz Lang at face value—something that was, apparently, always a risky proposition—M almost didn't get made, because Lang had more or less decided to stop making movies. His relationship with Ufa, the state-operated German film studio, had soured after Lang refused to add sound effects to his previous film, the silent sci-fi melo...
Sound comes first in Fritz Lang's M—literally. After the silent title card, and a card reading "A Film by Fritz Lang,"13 the screen fades to black and we hear the ominous sounding of a single gong. As film scholar Anton Kaes says on the Criterion commentary track, "Contemporary spectators would have associated this sound with the start of a newscas...
I'll be off in the middle of April—my wife and I are taking a belated honeymoon—but will return to this series with Jean Vigo's haunting love story L'Atalante(1934). Then I am—with mixed feelings—squeezing in a late addition to the syllabus: Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. We'll follow that up with back-to-back mas...
Aug 30, 2021 · All the same, as they speculate about the killer’s identity, Hans is shown contemplating himself in a mirror with peculiarity. The entire film flows in this logical manner, only slowing down to...
Nov 24, 2020 · The streets of Berlin are shadowy and grisly. The faces of those in power are grotesque. In its study of a sadistic murderer named Hans Beckert, (Peter Lorre), on the loose, M takes Lang’s ...
