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Fritz on Fridays

A collection of 37 posts

Fritz on Fridays: The Return of Frank James

Fritz on Fridays: The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James is a sound film that bears the marks of a silent film director.

Fritz on Fridays: The Westerns of Fritz Lang with Garrett Strpko

Fritz on Fridays: The Westerns of Fritz Lang with Garrett Strpko

"There’s a certain affinity that the medium has with gun violence … It’s not insignificant that we call it shooting and that one of the first moving picture cameras ever created is shaped like a rifle."

Fritz on Fridays: The Wandering Image

Fritz on Fridays: The Wandering Image

The Wandering Image is not a great film. It is an important one, though.

Fritz on Fridays: Western Union

Fritz on Fridays: Western Union

The issues they encounter on the way to Utah are typical, with one little unique and highly critical addition: Confederate soldiers wearing redface with the purpose of inciting conflict against Western Union because their telegraph will help the Union.

Fritz on Fridays: American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Fritz on Fridays: American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Don’t lie: You didn’t know Fritz Lang directed a film set in the Philippines during World War II.

Fritz on Fridays: Hangmen Also Die!

Fritz on Fridays: Hangmen Also Die!

Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht were a match designed by the gods of cinema even if the apocalyptic circumstances uniting them were nothing short of godless.

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