Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#21 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. The second half of the story that began with The Tiger of Eschnapur, The Indian Tomb is the same kind of easy adventure of good men saving women from bad men as the first half, except now there's an actual ending. The film doesn't elevate into grand… Continue reading The Indian Tomb
#22 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Fritz Lang was done with Hollywood, and he took an offer from the German film producer Artur Brauner to make a film with German money in India based on a script Lang and his ex-wife Thea von Harbou had written for the 1920 silent version of the… Continue reading The Tiger of Eschnapur
#28 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Courtroom dramas have limited appeal to me. They largely feel fake with artificial drama that would never actually happen in the setting. Sometimes a film can get past that, as in Fury, and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt actually ends up getting close. The drama isn't supposed to… Continue reading Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
#33 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. I feel like there are two opposing and competing movies within the bounds of While the City Sleeps. The first is obvious from the opening prologue where we watch a woman killed by an invader into her apartment. The second is a look at the sausage-making of… Continue reading While the City Sleeps
#37 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Sometimes you see an entry on a list that boggles the mind. There's no accounting for taste, for sure, but when I read that Cahiers du Cinema placed Fritz Lang's Moonfleet at number thirty-two on its list of greatest films of all time I was simply confounded.… Continue reading Moonfleet
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