Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Beautifully put by Jon over at Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis is set in “the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers [...]
Birmingham: It's Not Shit Blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis is set in “the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of [...]
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Is Alfred Hitchcock the best British film director of all? While Michael Powell was vilified after Peeping Tom , and David Lean fell in love with his own importance, Hitch never lost his bearings. That self-deprecating chink of black humour is evident to the very end. Like Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch, Hitch survived the invention of sound and the switch from Europe to Hollywood. He...
Flos Carmeli (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
from How to Read a Novel John Sutherland There was something dehumanizing about the whole population of China reading Mao's Little Red Book publicly, simultaneously, and in the same 'correct' way during the late 1960s. It was dehumanizing int he same way as are the futuristic serfs in Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece Metropolis , who do everything, from walking, to eating, to copulating, to sleeping,...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
To say Hollywood has a penchant for the cataclysmic scenario, would be an understatement of epic proportions.
Cryptomundo.com (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
One of the major chroniclers of early cryptozoology deserves a moment of historic reflection. Image.
Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer in Cloak and Dagger (dir. Fritz Lang, 1946). Lang at his most conventional, but nevertheless a moving story. His signature preoccupation with urban paranoia is evident throughout, and the scenes of active suspense are well handled, if few and far between. Gary Cooper, pardon me, is rather boring as a civilian academic drafted into espionage against Nazis pursuing nuclear...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Kenny Everett's horror movie may not be Citizen Kane, but it deserves its rescue from the vaults. Phelim O'Neill on how thousands of British films could soon be lost for ever
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The River's Edge Alan Dwan - 1957 20th Century Fox Region 1 DVD Happy 75th Birthday, Debra Paget! If there was ever an actress who truly defined starlet, it could well have been Debra Paget. For almost seven years,...
7.62mm Justice (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
As obvious as the title of this post might sound, a new generation would probably not associate it with what is arguably the greatest movie of all time. With this post, I’m drawing from one a couple of days back in ‘American Minute’, and expanding somewhat on that. When it comes to movies, I’m a hard guy [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Director Esteban Sapir never finds content as impressive as his style, but this is an adventure playground
Phawker (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
BY DAN BUSKIRK, FILM CRITIC The synopsis sounds like it could be a reality TV episode: two couples, “real people” like me and you, flirt and switch partners during a summer outing by the lake. What sets this apart from Cheaters is that it was shot in the Berlin of 1929 and the [...]
Young Germany RSS feed (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
According to press reports, Brad Pitt has been confirmed in the lead role of cult director Quentin...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Inara George/Van Dyke Parks - An Invitation After issuing a solo album in 2005 and several stylish recordings with The Bird and the Bee, Inara George takes a different path with An Invitation, a jazzy album recorded alongside Van Dyke Parks. Sophisticated and unhurried, the album features Parks’ orchestrations and George’s soft alto, which darts between [...]
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Janelle Monáe’s uniqueness was not apparent from the beginning, as heard on Big Boi’s second Got Purp? compilation. The neo-electro remake of DeBarge’s “Time Will Reveal” and the Off the Wall-emulating pop-funk of “Lettin’ Go” were standouts — even amidst nuggets like Konkrete’s “Shit Ya Drawers,” believe it or not — but Monáe seemed [...]
