Fritz Lang

...restored edition of George Cukor's music-filled 1954 drama A Star is Born; the North American premiere of a restored version of Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction silent masterpiece Metropolis; and a 50th anniversary screening of the...

In this article: TCM, A Star Is Born, Metropolis, Breathless, Hollywood, Academy Awards, Robert Osborne, Vanity Fair, and Jean-Luc Godard

...McCarthy points out, reference Captain Nemo, Frankenstein - and isn't that Mickey Mouse's hat from Fantasia? The backgrounds are pure Fritz Lang, full of hovercars reminiscent of chrome-crusted American cars from the 1950s. Astro Boy himself...

In this article: Astro Boy, Manga, Donald Sutherland, Osamu Tezuka, God, Black Jack, Fantasia, EC Segar, and William Shakespeare

...voices in cinema. When a younger character starts to list the names of all the DVDs on Harry's shelves -- Fellini, Bergman, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin -- well, of course there are many more directors that I love, but those are the ones...

In this article: Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, London, Orson Welles, Volver, and New York

...and the Beast). ALSO NEW ON DVD: Thank Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation for helping spearhead the remastering of one classic Fritz Lang "A" and four gritty "B's" revered by '50s enthusiasts of sociopathic screen protagonists and...

In this article: DVD, Blu-ray, Wim Wenders, World Series, Wings of Desire, Disney, Oscar, and The Sniper

...East German city) into a convincing present. The Baroque centre has been rehabilitated. The Babelsberg studios, famed for Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Dietrich's The Blue Angel, are finding their feet (Matt Damon made a couple of Bourne...

In this article: Potsdam, Berlin, Militarism, Frederick the Great, Sanssouci, Skittles, Bespoke, and Inglourious Basterds

...was a movie buff. While living in Europe, he'd been influenced by and was an influence on the German expressionist filmmakers Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau, but also was entranced by such Hollywood icons as Charles Chaplin, Mickey Mouse and...

In this article: Albert Einstein, Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood, Walter Wanger, MGM, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

...no rating system, you'd go see a Western and it was playing with Sunset Boulevard, you know what I'm saying? The Big Heat with Fritz Lang ... it affects you, in a way. It reflected a different world. So we accepted all kinds of images of...

In this article: Frank Sinatra, The Red Shoes, Martin Scorsese, HBO, Dean Martin, Gangs of New York, Empire, Atlantic City, and Shutter Island

...as your reasons for including them on the list. Some of the movies nominated by Wired.com readers are clearly classics, like Fritz Lang's silent 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis (pictured above), or 1956's Forbidden Planet. They obviously fit on...

In this article: Wired.com, Metropolis, Dog, Lassie Come Home, Kino, Forbidden Planet, Netflix, Lassie, and Jar Jar Binks

...War handicap) to exalted, overwhelmingly tender union through the miraculous power of love. Eschewing Lubitsch's sophistication or Fritz Lang's fatalism, the gentle Borzage - with his marvellous stars - gives believable body to the...

In this article: Frank Borzage, DVD, Charles Farrell, Liliom, Lucky Star, Street Angel, Janet Gaynor, George W Bush, and Carousel

Film Festival to Show Restored Uncut 'Metropolis' A scene from Fritz Lang's classic "Metropolis." One of the most important works in cinematic history is to be shown in its complete uncut version at next year's Berlin International Film...

In this article: Metropolis, Berlin, Berlin International Film Festival, Class struggle, and Unesco