One of Lang’s most lauded American works gets what is easily its best A/V presentation to date.
Lang’s underrated noir elegantly toys with noir tropes and subverts our expectations.
The film is a fascinating, bewitching, and hitherto largely neglected entry in Lang’s canon.
Lang’s gorgeous, action-packed films pour new thematic wine into charmingly old-fashioned narrative bottles.
Kino offers a lush restoration of Lang’s film, an early and intricate deconstruction of the biases driving noir.
Twilight Time honors the film with pristine preservation and correspondingly rich and efficient supplements.
Kino’s superlative presentation enables us to see the film’s modernist approach to genre as a transitional impulse in Lang’s early career.
Those students or cinephiles looking to trace the contemporary blockbuster’s roots should add Lang’s Woman in the Moon to their list.
Cinema hasn’t been this close to the dusty cogs of desire’s machinery and unapologetic about pleasure since Pasolini.
Time has revealed Hangmen Also Die to be one of Fritz Lang’s sharpest, bleakest, and most dizzyingly inventive thrillers.
Gemünden’s extensive definition of “exile” draws on the likes of theorists Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, and Salman Rushdie.
Perhaps the weakest points of the biography are McGilligan’s basic treatment of the films proper.
Contempt fully earns every possible interpretation of its bold title.
The urgency of Fritz Lang’s genre-establishing masterpiece hasn’t aged a day.
Criterion’s Ministry of Fear Blu-ray takes the cake—then blows it up, then goes hunting for its sweetly iced fragments.
Die Nibelungen ranks among the greatest and strangest of all silents.
You thought Dolph Lundgren, Meryl Streep, and Darth Sidious couldn’t co-habitate. You were wrong, Padawan.
The film flies high over its seemingly anonymous place in Lang’s 1940s phase.
The highly subjective task of compiling a list of the 10 best films of all time is nearly as daunting as the thought that plagues every film completist.
It’s hard not to get a little nostalgic while trying to determine one’s favorite films of all time.