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, UFA ...

A 512-page achievement of artifact over artiface, "Fritz Lang" falls short on the life and work of a great director. Cineastes seeking a coffee-table keepsake will be impressed with the photoplay ...

SPECULATING ABOUT THE FUTURE is an endlessly fascinating pursuit. In his 1895 novel THE TIME MACHINE, H.G. Wells set his story at the dawn of an apocalyptic new age of modernity.

When Fritz Lang made “The Tiger of Eschnapur” and its sequel “The Indian Tomb” in the late 1950s, the two films had already existed in the director’s imagination for almost 40y years. In 1921, Lang ...

On Sept. 11, 2002, many of us New Yorkers spent the day contemplating a skyline robbed of its most potent symbols, which were also meant as symbols of the towering dominance of world capitalism. By ...

Metropolis is, without a doubt, my favorite movie. The 1927 Fritz Lang film has been influencing pop culture for decades, and is still one of the most celebrated films of all time. If you've never ...

Robert De Niro has a new Netflix movie coming out this summer with a plot that's remarkably similar to cinema's original crime-procedural masterpiece.

That might make You and Me sound like an art film, but its story and many of its characterizations are the stuff of screwball comedy. The movie takes place in a department store whose ...