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Apr 23, 2024 · Fritz Lang, Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. His most notable movies included Metropolis (1927), M (1931), and The Big Heat (1953).
- Films of The 1950S
Fritz Lang - Film Noir, Expressionism, Metropolis: House by...
- First Films in Hollywood
First films in Hollywood of Fritz Lang. Lang made one film...
- Films of The 1950S
2 days ago · Metropolis. (1927 film) Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang [6] [7] from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment ).
- 10 January 1927
- Gottfried Huppertz
- 5.3 million ℛ︁ℳ︁ (estimated) (equivalent to €21 million 2021)
- Erich Pommer
May 2, 2024 · Through film director Fritz Lang, Janowitz and Mayer met with Erich Pommer, head of production at the Decla-Film studio in Weissensee, on 19 April 1919, to discuss selling the script. According to Pommer, he attempted to get rid of them, but they persisted until he agreed to meet with them.
- $4,713
- 26 February 1920 (Germany)
- $12,371
- Decla-Film (later known as Decla-Bioscop AG)
4 days ago · M (1931), shot only a few years before director Fritz Lang's departure from Germany, is among the first crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, in which the protagonist is a criminal (as are his most successful pursuers).
- United States
- early 1920s – late 1950s
5 days ago · Granted, the Austrian-born filmmaker behind “Secret,” Fritz Lang (1890-1976), was only nine years older than Hitchock, but, in pop culture terms, a decade might as well be an eternity. Lang could not have helped but notice that his fellow European was making significant inroads on his turf — that is to say, movies canted toward the ...
May 3, 2024 · The drawings, which eschew a human presence, have a post-apocalyptic quality reminiscent of the city of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.” A scene from Metropolis. Image via Wikimedia Commons .
Apr 17, 2024 · Despite the studio executives’ harsh criticism, Lang’s Fury was well-received commercially and critically. English novelist Graham Greene called the film ‘an extraordinary achievement’ whose novel Ministry of Fear (1943) was later adapted into a movie by Fritz Lang. Overall, Fury (92 minutes) may lack the bleak magnificence of Lang’s ...
