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 ...

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 ...

Hangmen Also Die! From a directorial standpoint this is a triumph for Fritz Lang, who succeeds with singular success in capturing the spirit of the Czech people in the face of the Nazi reign of ...

Fritz Lang's silent film classic Metropolis originally premiered in Berlin in January of 1927, later showing in New York in March of 1927. In 1984, a new restoration and edit of the film, ...

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 ...

Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was an Austro-Hungarian director, a German dual national by marriage from 1919, and a naturalized American in 1935. Inventor of a large number of innovative techniques that have ...