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Fritz Lang
Austrian filmmaker (–)
For the German painter, see Fritz Lang (artist).
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (Austrian German:[ˈfriːdʁɪçˈkrɪsti̯a(ː)nˈantɔnˈlaŋ]; December 5, – August 2, ), better known as Fritz Lang (Austrian German:[frɪtsˈlaŋ]), was an Austrian-born film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.[2] One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.[3] He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.[4]
Lang's work spans five decades, from the Expressionist silent films of his first German creative period to his short stay in Paris and his work as a Hollywood director to his last three films made in Germany.[5] Lang's most celebrated films include the futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis () and the influential M (), a film noir precursor. His film Woman in the Moon showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocketlaunch pad (a rocket standing upright against a tall building before launch having been slowly rolled into place) and the rocket-launch countdown clock.[6][7 • Fritz Lang stands the test of time better than most of the great movie legends. The spectacle of the epics he directed in Germany in the s, “Die Nibelungen” and “Metropolis,” is still breathtaking. “The Testament of Dr. Mabuse” and its sequels have passed into the mythology of the crime thriller. His first sound film, “M,” which launched Peter Lorre to international fame in the role of the pitiful compulsive sex killer, has never been surpassed as a portrait of morbid psychology and society’s response to it. In the United States, Lang embarked on a new career with “Fury,” a classic, foreboding study of mob malevolence, and went on to contribute the most seminal of Hollywood films noirs--”You Only Live Once,” “Manhunt,” “The Woman in the Window,” “Scarlet Street” and, above all, “The Big Heat.” He celebrated the West in “The Return of Frank James,” “Western Union” and in the bizarre “Rancho Notorious.” The titles alone stir a yearning to see them over again. Fritz Lang was, after all, a great filmmaker and a great entertainer. Late in life, he insisted, “I am an artisan [he used the German handwerker], not an artist.” Whether he liked it or not, though, he was an artist as well. Great artists are not necessarily nice people, and Lang, from all accounts, was quite n • 9/10 9/10 I proverb the r
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