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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...
...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...
...begging you, pass this now. By next year, another group of kids will slip through,” said Emma Lang, a junior at CRLS. Lang attended a private elementary school with little socioeconomic diversity and says she learned “how to talk to different people” when she came to CRLS...
...Helmut Lang Dress What's a young fashionista who doesn't want to look too frivolous to wear these days? Helmut Lang made a fascinating suggestion in his fall 2001 collection. The dress, which he did in long and short, black and white, and with and without the "holster" (the leather band around the shoulder and ribs), manages to be both austere and sexy and serious and glamorous. Clearly it's a look that will be most appreciated, as all Lang's garments are, by the fashion cognoscenti, but it's also one that any reasonably confident woman (with great...