Fritz Lang Articles

Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation ends this weekend, with a screening of Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (1946), a spy thriller/film noir starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer, and Alfred Hitchcock’s personal favorite film, Shadow of a [...]

Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (upper middle); George O’Brien (center) in John Ford’s The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge in Sam Taylor and Henry King’s The Woman Disputed (bottom) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival kicks off on July 15 with a screening of John Ford’s The Iron Horse, at 7 p.m. at the Castro Theatre. [...]

FilmBookdotcom has a Blu-ray contest out there: Alexander Mackendrick’s black comedy The Ladykillers, Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mepris / Contempt, and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran have been released by StudioCanal on Blu-ray and are up for grabs. The Ladykillers, remade a few years ago with Tom Hanks, stars Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and the outstanding Katie Johnson. Godard’s Contempt is a visually sumptuous drama starring Brigitte Bardot [...]

Annette Bening (left) in Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother and Child (top); Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (bottom) Starring Academy Award nominees Annette Bening and Naomi Watts, the psychological family drama Mother and Child opened on Mother’s Day weekend to $44.4K in four theaters as per estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The film’s $11,100 per theater average isn’t bad, but it’s not all that fantastic [...]