An interesting and completely unplanned overlap with today's #FilmDuJour, Robert Hossein's menacing Le vampire de Düsseldorf (1965). Both are based on real-life serial killer Peter Kürten's doings (plus in M's case, Fritz Haarman and Carl Großmann). #FritzLang met Kürten as part of his research, and cast 25 real criminals as extras for his #film.

#cinemastodon

#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 5: a jury for #JuryRightsDay

“Just you wait, it won't be long, The man in black will soon be here, With his cleaver's blade so true, He'll make mincemeat out of you!”

The jury's out for Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) in Fritz Lang's M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #FritzLang #TheaVonHarbou #EgonJacobsohn #PeterLorre #FilmNoir #SerialKillers #crime #drama #thriller #Germany #1930s

#Filmfest 917 #Cinema #Film #Movies #MovingPicture #FritzLang #WhiletheCitySleeps #DieBestie #USA1956 #Crime

Die Bestie (While the City Sleeps, USA 1956) #Filmfest 917

https://derwahlberliner.com/2023/03/23/die-bestie-while-the-city-sleeps-usa-1956-filmfest-917/

Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952) belongs to the strange wondrous overheated western melodrama sub-genre. An odd very stylised western that makes no concessions to realism. In its own way as bizarre and unusual as Forty Guns. I loved it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/rancho-notorious-1952.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #goldenagehollywood #1950smovie #1950smovies #western #westerns #FritzLang #MarleneDietrich

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“One has to keep a closer watch over the children. All of you.”
Ellen Widmann in M
#M #FritzLang #TheaVonHarbou
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

„Lasst uns einen Turm bauen, dessen Spitze bis an die Sterne reiche! An die Spitze schreiben wir: Groß ist die Welt und ihr Schöpfer! Und groß ist der Mensch! Die den Turm #Babel erdachten, konnten ihn nicht bauen. Die Hände, die den Turm Babel erbauten, wussten nichts vom Traum, den das HIRN, das ihn erdacht hatte, träumte. Lobgesang des Einen wurde Fluch der Anderen. Gleiche Sprache sprechend, verstanden die Menschen sich nicht." (#FritzLang, #Metropolis, 1927. Nach Roman von Thea v. #Harbou)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 5: hungover on #InternationalHangoverDay

After a lovely night out, Norah wakes up with a terrible hangover and a hunch of being a murderess. The Blue Gardenia (1953) is #FritzLang's hard-bitten take on the gruesome Black Dahlia murder case and part of his newspaper noir trilogy together with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, both from 1956 ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-blue-gardenia-1953

#FilmNoir #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

Dopo ogni film di #FritzLang ringrazio sempre il prof. #FrancescoBallo

#ScarletStreet #FritzLang We punish ourselves... Judge, Jury and Execution

Il 2 agosto del 1976 moriva Fritz Lang. Il regista tedesco autore de Il dottor Mabuse, Metropolis, M, fu costretto all'esilio dopo l'ascesa di Hitler. Il nazismo fece anche enormi danni anche al cinema.
https://www.lasinistraquotidiana.it/il-film-piu-odiato-dal-nazismo/

#2agosto #accaddeoggi #fritzlang #cinema #movie #film

David Sylvian - Snow White in Appalachia - The Sequencer Remix

Many fans remixed Sylvian's songs, especially from the album "Manafon", since this album was very "remix-friendly" even for amateurs. The original consists of David Sylvian's voice and a string quartet. The remix uses sequenced, arpeggiated synthesizers, which changes the mood.
The video is made of excerpts of the Fritz Lang movie "M - Eine Stadt such einen Morder"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqCcJ2-tCXI
#davidsylvian #manafon #remix #fritzlang

#Metropolis, from #SamEsmail, is scheduled to start filming this September, per Production Weekly.

The sci-fi series, inspired by #FritzLang’s 1927 film, depicts a dystopian futuristic world ruled by a wealthy elite while workers toil underground.

(https://www.productionweekly.com/production-weekly-issue-1351-thursday-may-25-2023-156-listings-35-pages/)

When the girl is standing before it, the contrast between its immensity and her tiny figure symbolizes Fate as inaccessible to human entreaties. This inaccessibility is also denoted by the innumerable steps the girl ascends to meet Death.”

Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, 1947.

#ClassicFilm #SilentFilm #Cinemastodon #FritzLang

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101 years ago:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (DE)
Original title: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attract...
1922-04-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5998
#DrMabusetheGambler #FritzLang #ClassicFilm

99 years ago:
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (DE)
Original title: Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
1924-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42512
#DieNibelungenKriemhildsRevenge #FritzLang #UFA #Movies

Metropolis de #ChristianMontenegro #LibrosDelZorroRojo

Básicamente es la película #FritzLang llevada a novela gráfica. Lo que vendria a ser trasladar (más o menos) fotograma a fotograma la película. Visualmente es muy impactante, pero a la hora de seguir la historia es agobiante y te pierdes un poco. Hay que reconocer que ha sabido captar la esencia de la película de Lang y del cine de expresionista alemán.

Metropolis 2023
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All shot using miniatures added some digital red beams in and glowing eyes the rest is all real.
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#fritzlang #metropolis #scifiart #toyphotography #photo #photography #miniatures

90 years ago:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (DE)
Original title: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must d...
1933-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12206
#TheTestamentofDrMabuse #FritzLang #Movies

Truly freaky art film. Fabulous!

(1927) Metropolis, colorized dance scene. Fritz Lang.

#FritzLang #HistoricFilm #Colorized #Metropolis #ArtFilm

https://youtu.be/Be955EMr13o

67 years ago:
While the City Sleeps (US)
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
1956-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36786
#WhiletheCitySleeps #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #RhondaFleming #GeorgeSanders #RKO #Movies