Movie poster for Fritz Lang’s 1926 film Metropolis. (Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) This article appears in the October 17/24, 2022 issue. Subscribe to The Nation ...

Fritz Lang’s “You and Me” (1938) “confounded audience expectations at the time of its release,” a breathless scribe at Powerhouse Films writes. Some 80 years later, one suspects that it will do much ...

Fritz Lang 1 Articles . Liftoff! The Origin Of The Countdown. December 27, 2023 by Kristina Panos 18 Comments . What’s the most thrilling part of rocketry? Well, the liftoff, naturally.

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 ...

The movie, inspired by director Fritz Lang's first view of the New York City skyline during a visit in the 1920s, ranks among the most influential films of all time, and the most lauded.

Before Man Walked on the Moon, Fritz Lang Depicted Space Travel as a Reality. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for cinema. by Jon O'Brien. Oct. 16, 2024. Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images.

The GHOST Agents are crossing over into the Art Deco future of Metropolis. Directed by Fritz Lang, the classic science fiction film recently entered the public domain, opening it up to adaptation ...

It’s unusual for a movie to have inspired creations as diverse as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Roland Emmerich's Independence Day, but a movie celebrating its 100th birthday today can claim just ...