In Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt,” when the filmmaker Fritz Lang (playing himself) meets Brigitte Bardot’s character, she sings the praises of his 1952 Western, “Rancho Notorious.” Lang ...

And, according to Patrick McGilligan, in his brilliant, densely detailed new Lang biography, “The Nature of the Beast,” Lang’s copious research for “M” included tours of police ...

The Harvard Film Archive is presenting a comprehensive retrospective, “The Complete Fritz Lang,” through Sept. 1. In addition to familiar masterpieces such as “Metropolis” (1927) and “M ...

M is the beginning for a few things; it was Fritz Lang’s first sound film, it was Peter Lorre’s first major role and may well be the place where film noir begins.

In the first talkie made by the pioneering German film director Fritz Lang, the dialogue is sparse and there is no music other than a little whistling. "M," made in 1931, three years before Lang ...

Fritz Lang’s masterpiece “M” was one of Criterion’s first forays into DVD, released back in 1998, in the fledgling days of the format. While the disc’s case boasted a “new digital ...

Director: Fritz Lang. The choice of Fritz Lang’s M over the likes of Dracula or Frankenstein ultimately boils down to the inventiveness the film’s director displays in adapting to a new era of ...

Zum Beispiel: Fritz Lang is a 21 minute 1968 interview with Lang in German. It’s interesting to hear Lang talk so passionately about his early film work and to see clips from this work, allowing ...

For Fritz Lang, though, ... The Gambler" made his first sound film in 1931, and among the many stunning facets of "M" is its masterful employment of audio storytelling. ...

M is the beginning for a few things; it was Fritz Lang’s first sound film, it was Peter Lorre’s first major role and may well be the place where film noir begins.