Posts Tagged ‘Fritz Lang’
Film Noir Files – How Hitchcock Solidified (And Then Ended) The Classic Noir Era
The Master of…Noir? In relation to the classic noir era (early 1940’s to the late 1950’s), is Alfred Hitchcock considered among its major contributors? It’s no doubt that Hitch saw his biggest string of commercial and artistic success during this time, and he often delved…
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An Appreciation – Blade Runner: The Final Cut
My admiration for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) did not come immediately. It came about slowly, in bits and pieces, over a long stretch of time. When I first saw it, I knew that it was important, but also felt there was something holding me…
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SIFF Film Review – Love Among the Ruins
Massimo Ali Mohammad’s Love Among the Ruins (2015) is a delightful little gem from Italy. It tackles ideas such as film history and preservation within the context of a fabricated documentary. You get a two-for-one deal here: the first act involves Mohammad (who wrote and…
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An Appreciation – Metropolis
In 2008, one of the great discoveries in cinema lore took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hidden in a stack of canisters was a 16mm duplicate copy of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece, Metropolis (1927). Horribly scratched and weathered through time, it contained possibly the…
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An Analysis – The Unresolved Legacy of Fritz Lang’s “M”
The common misconception about our society is that now we have iPods and antibiotics we are a more progressive, forward-thinking culture. But if we only look back into our inconveniently well-recorded history, we can see that might not have always been the case. When Americans…
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What We’re Watching 7/13/11
Many more intelligent people than I have already summarized life as a series of dueling, chaotic and organized events. John Lennon said, life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Roberto Begnini’s character Bob, in Jim Jarmusch’s 1985 film Down by Law, makes…
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Top 5 – Sci-Fi Films (Nerd Rebuttal)
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Ed and Ben give the nerd rebuttal to the top 5 Sci-Fi films picked by Brandi and Allen.
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Top 5 – Sci-Fi Films
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5’s segment. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 sci-fi films.
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