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	Fritz Lang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich Lang was born in Vienna, in the former Austria-Hungary, to Anton Lang (August 1, 1860–1940), an architect and construction company manager, and Pauline "Paula" Schlesinger (July 26, 1864–1920) on December 5, 1890.
		Lang had been, unbeknownst to Goebbels, already planning to leave Germany for Paris, but the meeting with Goebbels ran so long that the banks were closed by the time it finished, and Lang fled that night without his money, not to return until after the war.
		Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger; he was known for being hard to work with.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fritz_Lang (2120 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fritz Lang’s films are among the most rigorous, honest, and intelligent ever made.
		Lang’s romanticism lies in the possibilities he extends to his characters to avoid fitting into designed spaces, to move unpredictably, to protest the excess of order.
		Lang’s films, in which mise-en-scène is supreme, are mostly lacking in first-rate performances, but here he gets one from Henry Fonda — with his young, deliberate, receptive face — as the most desperate of three-time losers.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/documents/02139032.htm (1375 words)

	Fritz Lang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		M (1931) shows the director at the height of his powers; a consummate study of the mind of a pathological criminal, it was Lang's favorite of his films and the standard by which he judged the rest of his career.
		Lang was a twisted sadist, and, ultimately, a failure.
		Chief among those things Lang would have to reckon with would be an incident that occurred at the time of the director's first fame in Berlin.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/07-97/FRITZ_LANG.html (643 words)

	Fritz Lang - SCIFIPEDIA
		In 1922 von Harbou and Klein-Rogge divorced, and von Harbou married Lang.
		Lang left Germany in 1933, although his version of his departure -- which he said occurred after a meeting with Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels -- has recently come into question.
		Patrick McGilligan, in Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (1997), has shown 1) that the dates of Lang's departure in his passport are months later than in his telling of the tale, and 2) that Goebbels' voluminous notes make no mention of a meeting with Lang.
	scifipedia.scifi.com /index.php?title=Fritz_Lang&redirect=no (458 words)

	Fritz Lang @ Filmbug
		Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890-August 2, 1976) was a Viennese film director, and one of the most famous emigrés from Germany's school of expressionism to work in Hollywood.
		Lang was an artist and a painter who enlisted in the army and fought in World War I. Wounded and recovering from both injuries and shell-shock, he joined Germany's UFA studio just as the Expressionist movement was waxing.
		Lang produced a number of crime dramas, and an ambitious two-part adaptation of the Ring of the Nibelung saga (better known from Wagner's opera), before directing his most famous film, Metropolis, in 1927.
	www.filmbug.com /db/2900 (473 words)

	Fritz Lang Biography
		Fritz Lang (Dec. 5, 1890 - Aug. 2, 1976), Austrian-American film director, was born in Vienna, the son of an architect, Anton Lang, and Paula Schlesinger Lang.
		A progenitor of the film noir of the 1960's, Lang was preoccupied throughout his oeuvre with the dark side of human nature: vengeance, violence, and the criminal mind.
		The distinctiveness of Lang's European and American periods reflects an extraordinary adaptation: to a new country, language, and studio environment, as well as to cinematic sound and color.
	www.csuchico.edu /engl/lang/bio.htm (852 words)

	Metropolis (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbour in 1926.
		Part of Fritz Lang's visual inspiration for the movie came during a trip to Manhattan, New York.
		But Fritz Lang insisted on her playing the part, even if nobody would know it was her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film) (3052 words)

	Fritz Lang - Biography - Moviefone
		As a director, Lang debuted in 1919 with the now-lost Halbblut.
		Lang's transition from the silents to sound began with his masterpiece M (1931).
		Lang spent the next several decades in America working in a variety of styles and genres, including the Western (among his more notable efforts being 1940's The Return of Frank James and 1952's Rancho Notorious).
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/fritz-lang/98675/biography (541 words)

	The Dominion of Crime: Fritz Lang in America
		But Lang's experiences in America -- as a partisan commentor on the Second World War, then as a victim of the Cold War -- eroded his belief in "mystical fate." His later films were proccupied with cynical men who suddenly realize, to their horror, that to be moral one must choose to be so.
		Lang was a pioneer in probing the psychological potential of the West.
		Lang's first film of the Fifties was a clear indicator of the course he would pursue throughout the decade: to demonstrate that Fate is a purely man-made phenomenon.
	www.kabinet.org /magazine/issue2/fritz2.html (3336 words)

	bfi \| Features \| Fritz Lang: The Permanent Magic of Fritz Lang
		Fritz Lang was born in Vienna in 1890 and died in California in 1976.
		Lang seems always to have been interested in what happens to individuals who come up against the larger power of organisations, bureaucracies, criminal networks -- all the modern apparatus of surveillance and control.
		Lang was a consummate entertainer, a master of every aspect of film-making, and an artist with a serious and coherent purpose.
	www.bfi.org.uk /features/lang/magic.html (933 words)

	The Films of Fritz Lang - by Michael E. Grost
		Lang has given each student a different posture and facial expression to convey this boredom; no two postures are alike, and the scene is a startling treatise on the visual appearance of dislike.
		Lang's heroes sometimes undergo a transformation, from bum to rich man. In Spies, his spy hero is first disguised as a British loafer when the heroine sees him, later he cleans himself up into his own appearance and his spectacular wardrobe.
		Lang's conical arrangement of the draperies, in a shot containing the cut-out and floating boards, is also strikingly geometric.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/lang.htm (22909 words)

	Lang, Fritz - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After directing 15 films, Lang fled Nazi Germany (1933) to avoid collaborating with the government and settled in the United States.
		Fritz Lang's mediaevalism: from Die Nibelungen to the American West.
		Fritz Lang, profeta del siglo XXI.(productor AlemÃ¡n)(TT: Fritz Lang, prophet of the XXi century.)(TA: German filmmaker)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lang-Fri.asp (349 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Fritz Lang
		Lang first began to study civil engineering at the Technical University of Vienna but was not enthusiastic about it and switched studies to art in 1908.
		Whatever the truth of this legend, it is known that Lang did in fact leave Germany in 1934 and moved to Paris and later to the United States.
		Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical film director such as Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick; he was known for being hard to work with.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Fritz_Lang (1212 words)

	Fritz Lang
		Fritz Lang grew up in fin de siècle Vienna, during the Golden Autumn of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he carried its intellectual and artistic heritage with him for the rest of his days.
		Lang immediately resolved to leave the country, in part because of a Jewish heritage he reportedly had the temerity to remind Goebbels of, and did so either that same day (if you believe his own dramatic account) or within the year.
		Lang was already an aficionado of all things Western, including Indian beadwork and cachinas, so he dove enthusiastically into an unlikely genre that would revive his career and to which he would return in Western Union (1941) and Rancho Notorious (1952).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/lang.html (2824 words)

	metropolis \| movie classic, directed by fritz lang (1927)
		Fritz Lang quickly established himself at the forefront of German cinema.
		Scarcely had Lang finished with this vast project than he embarked on Metropolis, a vision of the future written, as had been the three previous films, by himself and his wife Thea von Harbou.
		Of course the 'solution' is, as Lang ruefully admitted, monumentally naive and banal: simply that love conquers all, and that 'the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart' ('That's a fairytale - definately' added Lang).
	www.leninimports.com /metropolis.html (1146 words)

	BookRags: Fritz Lang Biography
		Lang was also being considered for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari but had to give up participation in this eventually famous film for a sequel to his popular Spiders, Part Two: Das Brillanten Schiff (The Diamond Ship) (1920).
		Lang's last film as a director was Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960), a new variation on his old master criminal.
		Critical approaches to Lang's work have often tried to distinguish between his German and American periods, not only in terms of the obvious differences in look, image, and rhythm, but also in terms of artistic quality.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/fritz-lang (1376 words)

	The Films of Fritz Lang
		In this remarkable new study, the renowned historian and theorist of early cinema turns his attention to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors.
		Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative that can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin, and Kracauer.
		From the sweeping allegorical films of the '20s to the chilly and abstract thrillers of the '50s, Fritz Lang's films, Gunning claims, are among the most precious records of the twentieth century.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/bfi/pages/PROD0059.html (306 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #53 \| Fritz Lang at Twilight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fritz Lang's house was small, but it evoked his famous Bauhaus mansion of his UFA days in Weimar, Germany.
		Lang had recently undergone a major operation and was recuperating at home.
		Lang’s groundbreaking Metropolis, made in 1927 and a staple of film school classrooms and art house theaters worldwide, has been re-released several times since its premiere, most recently for its 75-year anniversary in 2002.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/53/lang.html (3622 words)

	Amazon.com: Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast: Books: Patrick McGilligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lang evidently really was a tyrant on the set, but he also made many friends over the course of his career.
		Lang may have been a flawed genius, but he was a genius, and deserves to be treated as such (see "Print the Legend" by Scott Eymas to see how it's done).
		Lang has long been an enigmatic character in the film world, always quick to reinvent his own history through the numerous interviews he has done over the years, most notably with Peter Bogdanovich in the book FRITZ LANG IN AMERICA.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312132476?v=glance (1966 words)

	The silent and sound German expressionist films of FRITZ LANG
		“Fritz Lang's first sound film is a masterpiece of low-keyed expressionism, in which fear permeates every brick of the dark alleys and crumbling buildings which form its background.
		Lang was given an unprecedented budget to create the still impressive huge sets inspired by the New York City skyline.
		“Lang's adaptation of the 13thcentury German saga is a superb example of the craftsmanship at the UFA studios.
	www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-LANG.htm (955 words)

	fritz lang biography (1890 - 1976)
		Trained as a fashion designer, painter and graphic artist in his native Austria, Lang used his keen mind and painterly eye to the maximum effect, to become one of the world's great directors and foremost creators of atmospheres of menace, whether in actuality or suggestion.
		The theme song to Lang's hauntingly different western Ranchos Notorious tells continually of 'hate, murder and revenge' and these were the themes that were to occupy Lang greatly during his 21 years in Hollywood.
		It is unarguable to suggest that Lang was one of the greatest film directors of the 20th century.
	www.leninimports.com /fritz_lang.html (944 words)

	Silent Era: People: Directors: Fritz Lang
		Fritz Lang began film work in 1917 by selling scenarios to film producer/director Joe May. Directed his first film, Halbblut [The Half-Breed] in 1919.
		Lang emigrated to America in the 1930s and continued to direct in Hollywood.
		Lang returned to Germany to direct a couple of films late in his career.
	www.silentera.com /people/directors/Lang-Fritz.html (146 words)

	Amazon.com: M - Criterion Collection: DVD: Fritz Lang,Peter Lorre,Ellen Widmann,Inge Landgut,Otto Wernicke,Theodor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This riveting, 1931 German drama by Fritz Lang--an early talkie--unfolds against a breathtakingly expressionistic backdrop of shadows and clutter, an atmosphere of predestination that seems to be closing in on Lorre's terrified villain.
		In this, Fritz Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as the cinema's first serial killer, a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of the Berlin underworld.
		This famous Fritz Lang classic is about a child murderer in Germany who finally meets justice not at the hands of the authorities but by fellow undesireables.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780021150?v=glance (2584 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Fritz Lang's M (1931)
		Fritz Lang brings the terrors of noir into the bright kitchens of America.
		In the second sequence, which makes up most of the film, Lang presents the two groups whose interests are most threatened: the police, who must satisfy an hysterical populace, and the criminal underground, whose economic interests are jeopardized by increased police scrutiny because of the killings.
		It’s generally agreed that M was critical in hastening Lang’s departure from Germany in 1934.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /29/m.html (747 words)

	Fritz Lang at Reel Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fritz Lang's Metropolis: cinematic visions of technology and fear edited by Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2000).
		Fritz Lang: the nature of the beast by Patrick McGilligan (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).
		Fritz Lang by Lotte H. Eisner; translated by Gertrud Mander and edited by David Robinson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, c1976).
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Fritz_Lang/fritzlang.htm (328 words)

	Academy Exhibition to Focus on Fritz Lang
		Beverly Hills, CA - The life and work of visionary film director Fritz Lang will be the focus of a new exhibition at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, beginning August 3.
		Like all exhibitions at the Academy, "Fritz Lang: Vienna - Berlin - Paris - Hollywood" is free and open to the public.
		The visual means by which he brought them and their worlds to life on the screen made him a creative master in the history of cinema.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2001/01.07.11.html (375 words)

	Silent Era : DVD : Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998) Review
		This biography of German filmmaker Fritz Lang accompanies a series of Lang films that have already been released on DVD by a handful of home video producers.
		A number of filmed interviews in German and French with Fritz Lang are bracketed by production stills and clips from his films and by modern interviews with Lang collaborators, European filmmakers and a biographer.
		Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998), color and fl and white, 54 minutes, not rated.
	www.silentera.com /DVD/fritzLangCircleDVD.html (657 words)

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