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Just as Eberharter, the World Cup champion, had set up a nearly half-second lead, his countryman Fritz Strobl posted a time .28 sec. faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting...
...Fritz Lang was born in Vienna in 1890 and died in California in 1976. He lived through two world wars, successfully transitioned from silent films to sound films and, after fleeing the Nazis, managed to start his cinematic life all over again in America. Rivaled only by director Howard Hawks in his ability to work in every genre, Lang directed hundreds of films that ranged from musical comedy to western to police drama. His long career spanned many decades and transcended many difficulties. And yet his cinematic vision remained relatively consistent. Throughout his life, he bemoaned the helplessness...
Metropolis is the film that Fritz Lang is best known for. Premiered in 1927, this incredibly ambitious and technologically innovative vision of futuristic purgatory practically bankrupted UFA, the enormous German film studio. The extraordinary beauty of Lang’s expressionistic city and the brilliant special effects of Eugen Schuefftan, overpower the argument that belittles Metropolis for its excessively maudlin, and at times incongruous plot. Metropolis was one of the first true science fiction movies, and its influence on films such as Alphaville and Blade Runner is very apparent. Lang’s Marxian depiction of capitalism and industrialism gone...
...examples of his rehabilitation. Harvard is also doing its part to give Lang the credit that he deserves with this new film series at the HFA, with the assistance of the Goethe Institut Boston. I highly recommend that everyone go the Film Archive and see the films of Fritz Lang for themselves...
...examples of his rehabilitation. Harvard is also doing its part to give Lang the credit that he deserves with this new film series at the HFA, with the assistance of the Goethe Institut Boston. I highly recommend that everyone go the Film Archive and see the films of Fritz Lang for themselves...