The great tradition of paranoid cinema began with Fritz Lang. Conspiracies, treachery, vengeance, cabals — the fear of omnipotent, invisible, malignant powers controlling everything behind the scenes ...

Fritz Lang casts a long, dark shadow over the history of the movies, stretching from the Golden Age of the German cinema in the ‘20s to Hollywood through the ‘50s, capped by a return to Berlin just as ...

Circa 1928, the famously bemonocled, infamously dictatorial director (directator?) Fritz Lang hit a rough patch in his career. His classic-to-be Metropolis had nearly bankrupted its parent studio, UFA ...

The film that revolutionised several genres and paved the way for the film noir boom. Mystery, police-procedural, and really, all cinema fans should watch these! Before CGI, fantasy filmmakers had to ...

LONDON — The 66th Berlin Intl. Film Festival is to present the world premiere of the digitally restored version of Fritz Lang’s “Der müde Tod” (Destiny) as part of its Berlinale Classics program. The ...

Born in Vienna in 1890, director Fritz Lang was a formidable presence in life as on the screen. A journalist once described him as “a noble Roman ruin of a man.” Barrel-chested, silver-haired, with ...

Fritz Lang’s “You and Me” (1938), a strange and imperfect movie that I love more on each viewing, has finally arrived on DVD via the TCM Vault Collection, as part of its second “Dark Crimes” ...

"They never stop the struggle," Fritz Lang, the towering figure in German cinema, once remarked of his characters. The 22 films in Film Forum's new retrospective "Fritz Lang in Hollywood"—which ...

A 512-page achievement of artifact over artiface, "Fritz Lang" falls short on the life and work of a great director. Cineastes seeking a coffee-table keepsake will be impressed with the photoplay ...

When Fritz Lang made “The Tiger of Eschnapur” and its sequel “The Indian Tomb” in the late 1950s, the two films had already existed in the director’s imagination for almost 40y years. In 1921, Lang ...