Fritz on Fridays Fritz on Fridays: Rancho Notorious The final 15 minutes of Rancho Notorious are spectacular.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Hilde Warren and Death The classic Langian game theory with fate expresses itself through Weimar-era anxieties about corrupted blood.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: The Blue Gardenia The Blue Gardenia challenges this narrative of complacency and Lang’s supposed wont to “sleepwalking through history.”
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Harakiri (1919) One of the most underappreciated legacies of Fritz Lang’s career was his star-making power.
Essays Libera te Tutamet: Pompeii (2014) One of the greatest cinematic achievements of the 21st century.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is more sadistic than bleak.
Reviews Blu-ray Review: The Beast (2024) The Beast offers more with each new return than the previous one.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Man Hunt (1941) What greater thrill could there be than killing the leader of the Third Reich?
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: You and Me It’s also a film that takes place from Thanksgiving to Christmas, making it a fitting time to run for this month’s column.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: House by the River It’s one of those films so pleasant to look at that it makes you regret the flatly lit junk made today for streaming services.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler The man dropped classics like drivers dropping fast-food litter off I-71 on their commute: naturally, frequently and as if no one was looking.
Reviews Walter, Grace & the Submarine Mumblecore is usually a word I reserve as a slur. In the case of Walter, Grace & The Submarine, the first indie film from director Noah Bashore, it is a word I use affectionately.
Reviews 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.
Arthur Kennedy 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."
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: The Wandering Image The Wandering Image is not a great film. It is an important one, though.
Reviews 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.
Reviews 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.
Reviews 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.
Reviews 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.
Reviews 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.
Reviews 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.
Reviews Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Zone of Interest I’m not convinced that The Zone of Interest, the first film in a decade from provocateur Jonathan Glazer, is a film about the banality of evil per se. It’s more of a horrific record of of the banality — and that distinction matters.
