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...pantheon of great directors, Fritz Lang is a bit of an anomaly. Unlike his contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, who was canonized early on and remains a universally acknowledged god of cinema, Lang’s road to directorial fame was an oblique one. Although denounced by Siegfried Kracauer as a fascist in the forties, and then heralded by the French Cahiers du Cinema as an amateur in the sixties, his work has received a surprising dearth of critical attention. It has only been in the last few years that critics have begun to exhume many of his films and give...
Metropolis, viewers fail to realize the importance of Lang’s many other films. His great silent films such as Destiny (1921), Dr.Mabuse the Gambler (1922), and Die Nibelungen (1923-24) should not be ignored. Bunuel believes that Destiny opened his eyes to the poetic expressiveness of the cinema. This fantastical film, which is about the fight of the individual against the forces of death, or destiny, is based on a Grimms fairy tale, and is in the German romantic tradition. Dr. Mabuse captures the essence of post-war despair and is a commentary on the dangers of political...
...ambition and friends in high places - one of whom even has a shot at becoming Chancellor. Using a keen understanding of the public taste and an enormous appetite for risk taking, our hero builds a multibillion-dollar media empire, comprising TV stations, newspapers and rights to a library of cinema classics and sports events...
THAT OLD FEELING In his day job, TIME film critic Richard Corliss writes sharp, informed (and extremely quotable) reviews of the current cinema. Happily for us at TIME.com he also writes "That Old Feeling," a weekly column that spotlights, and often celebrates, the rich popular arts and entertainments of the 20th century. Last week Corliss gave out the Feelies, his awards for the best creaky culture of 2001. This week he writes on the closing of the peerless collection of movie stills at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. As he writes, "May everything old be new again...
...been a fan of boxer Muhammad Ali's ever since I watched him defeat Sonny Liston on closed-circuit TV in 1964. Still, the compliments by essayist Stanley Crouch in your coverage of the new film Ali [CINEMA, Dec. 24] were, to put it gently, excessive. The closing paragraph is but one example: "Everything he did was big, when he was right, when he was wrong, when he embarrassed us, when he inspired us. That finally is why he remains a king of the world." Gracious! My guess is that Ali would get a chuckle when reading such nonsense. RICHARD...