Fritz on Fridays — Joshua Polanski's monthly celebration of filmmaker Fritz Lang — continues with 1943's "Hangmen Also Die!" One of the truly great Hollywood films from the studio era, it's also a landmark collaboration with German Leftist playwright Bertolt Brecht.
On the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.”… continue
On the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.”… continue
I’m not convinced that The Zone of Interest, the first film in a decade from provocateur Jonathan Glazer, is a film about the banality of evil per se.… continue
An unphased celebration of tender masculinity and a dissection of grief opening Friday at the Kan-Kan Cinema, All of Us Strangers features one of 2023’s best performances — from Andrew Scott as Adam, a man who mysteriously encounters his parents although they died many years ago.… continue
On the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.”… continue
An altogether infertile American studio film, Michael Mann’s Ferrari neglects the creativity and bravura in the racing that any good racing movie should have and substitutes stereotypical housewife and mistress roles for the film’s two women. … continue
On the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.”… continue
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 3 to 19.… continue
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 3 to 19.… continue
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 3 to 19.… continue
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 3 to 19.… continue
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