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Fritz on Fridays

A collection of 31 posts

Fritz on Fridays: You Only Live Once

Fritz on Fridays: You Only Live Once

If you were to put all of Fritz Lang’s films together and make a new one from the aggregate, that film would very closely resemble 1937’s You Only Live Once.

Fritz on Fridays: The Spiders — The Diamond Ship

Fritz on Fridays: The Spiders — The Diamond Ship

The second of Fritz Lang’s two Spiders films, released in 1920 but considered a lost film until the 1970s, might be the most reprobate picture of his nearly six-decade career.

Fritz on Fridays: The Woman in the Window (1944)

Fritz on Fridays: The Woman in the Window (1944)

The Woman in the Window might be the most important film the director made after leaving the German industry.

Fritz on Fridays: The Spiders — The Golden Sea

Fritz on Fridays: The Spiders — The Golden Sea

I try not to interpret Lang, or all Austrian and / or German cinema for that matter, through the tragedy of the Shoah and fascism more broadly, but The Golden Sea makes that hard through the confession of the Incan leader, who offers “a sacrifice to the sun that rises and promises to make our people

Fritz on Fridays: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Fritz on Fridays: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

At the absolute maximum, there are but a handful of filmmakers in the history of the seventh art who have left a greater mark on the medium than Fritz Lang. I’m even hesitant to identify a single filmmaker with a definitive case for being more influential over the course

Fritz on Fridays: <i>The Big Heat</i> (1953)

Fritz on Fridays: <i>The Big Heat</i> (1953)

Beginning today, on the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.” Occasionally (but not too occasionally), Fritz on Fridays will also feature interviews and conversations