We’re in the thick of holiday craziness right now. By this point you probably need a break, if only for a few hours, from the seasonal hustle and bustle. So why not take a few hours off and check out…
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It’s no exaggeration to say that this is the biggest week of Blu-ray and DVD releases ever. After all, how can it be when the new titles that are now available are led off by the biggest movie moneymaker of…
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One of the motion pictures that helped establish the genre of film noir, Fritz Lang’s compelling The Woman in the Window brilliantly adapts J.H. Wallis’ novel for the big screen. Originally released by RKO Radio Pictures on November 3, 1944,…
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You Only Live Once is left out of discussions about Henry Fonda‘s considerable filmography far too often. This deeply involving film noir effort stars Fonda as Eddie Taylor, a loser who gets released on parole and becomes determined to carve…
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Metropolis is a silent film made in Germany by director Fritz Lang and released in 1927, at the height of German Expressionism. While its idea of a working class and intellectual class finding a mediator to help restore harmony can feel like…
Read more →January 10, 1927: Set in the year 2000, Fritz Lang‘s sci-fi opus, Metropolis (Metropolis: Fritz Lang’s Timeless Vision), opens. It’s among the first to use miniatures in place of enormous sets. January 10, 1914: With Mack Sennett’s instruction to Charlie Chaplin to “get…
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The visionary Viennese director Fritz Lang ’s 1927 expressionistic masterpiece Metropolis has been re-released in a new 147 minute version, called “The Complete Metropolis”. The film premiered in February 2010 at the Berlin Film at Friederichstrasse Palast, accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra…
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