Essays on Fritz Lang

 He was born 126 years ago, before sci-fi films, serial killer movies and  film noir were invented. He’d help invent them all. Fritz Lang was one  of the giants of cinema, and these 10 films find him at the top of his  game. 

Lang, from the beginning of his career to the end, was the sort of filmmaker whose art was his craft.  

 Mythical  heroes, sacrificing heroines, criminal madmen and uncontrolled  super-science are his themes;  it’s a paranoid’s view of the first half of the 20th Century, expressed  with fantastic innovations that literally re-write the rules of cinema. 

  A history of Lang's 22 films produced over 20 years in Hollywood

The first true epic scale director, or blockbuster style director, was German director and screenwriter Fritz Lang 

The Dark side of Lang's work