Fritz Lang
Actor and Director
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'Broken Embraces': Love In Vain, By Kurt Loder...actress still comes as a revelation. "Broken Embraces" is as much about movies themselves (it's seeded with references to Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin and Roberto Rossellini) as it is about the elegantly-tied knots of its plot. At the age of... In this article: Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Rene Magritte, Roberto Rossellini, and Blanca Portillo |
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PR Newswire | 4 days ago
First-ever TCM Classic Film Festival to Feature Newly Restored Versions of A Star is Born (1954) and Metropolis (1927), Plus an Anniversary Screening of Breathless (1960)
...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
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Guardian Unlimited | 7 days ago
Astro Boy ready to go global
...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
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Salon | November 13, 2009
Pedro Almodovar: An irrational passion for movies
...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
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USATODAY.com | November 13, 2009
New on DVD: 'Up,' World Series collection, 'Wings of Desire'
...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
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Times Online | November 13, 2009
Potsdam: the complete guide
...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
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True/Slant | November 12, 2009
Einstein in Hollywood: The untold story
...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
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Vulture | November 05, 2009
Martin Scorsese on The Red Shoes, Boardwalk Empire, and Casting His Sinatra Biopic
...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
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Wired: Underwire | November 04, 2009
Your Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks, From Metropolis Through the '50s
...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
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 04, 2009
Frank Borzage: a selection DVD of the week
...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
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | October 30, 2009
Berlin Return for Lost Classic: Film Festival to Show Restored Uncut 'Metropolis'
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
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Description from Wikipedia:
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the BFI. His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, where he contributed greatly to film noir.
- Name At Birth:
- Friedrich Christian Anton Lang
- Birth Date:
- December 05, 1890
- Birthplace:
- Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- Death Date:
- August 02, 1976
- Place of Death:
- Beverly Hills, California
- Spouse:
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- Lily Latté (1971-1976)
- Thea von Harbou (1922-1933)
- Lisa Rosenthal (1919-1921)
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