Fritz Lang

Interviews

By: Barry Keith Grant (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 2003

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The films of Fritz Lang depict an entrapping, claustrophobic world in which people are controlled by larger forces. His overriding theme is the struggle against fate and against the traits of human nature that doom us.

His life and work spanned six decades of film history-from the silent era through the golden age of German Expressionism of the 1920s and the classic studio system in Hollywood to the rise of the international co-production. In Hollywood he worked for every major studio except Disney. He made blockbusters, modest B movies, and everything in between. Among his films are classics of German cinema-including Metropolis and M. In America he made some of the most notable crime movies (Fury), noir films (The Big Heat), and Westerns (The Return of Frank James) of the studio era. Despite the different time periods, nations, and genres in which he worked, his films remain stylistically consistent.

Lang (1890-1976), a notoriously difficult interviewee, granted relatively few interviews apart from short publicity exchanges in the promotion of his films. Fully aware of his public persona, he was a canny self-promoter who carefully constructed half-truths and myths about himself.

This fascinating collection covers his conversations about his life and his works over a period of forty years. They reveal how cinema for Lang was an intensely personal art. "For me," he said, "cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. I've often written that it is the art form of our century."

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Arts & Entertainment Biographies Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Specific Films Individual Film Directors Acting & Theatre Studies Technical & Background Skills in Theatre Film Theory & Criticism Dance & Other Performing Arts

Technical & Background Skills in Film Production

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology	p. xvii
Filmography	p. xxi
The Monster of Hollywood	p. 3
Fritz Lang Today	p. 13
Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 16
Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 24
Fritz Lang Speaks	p. 28
Fritz Lang on M: An Interview	p. 33
With Fritz Lang	p. 38
New Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 41
The Viennese Night: A Fritz Lang Confession, Parts One and Two	p. 50
Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 77
Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 81
Fritz Lang in Venice	p. 91
Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 101
Fritz Lang: Reaching Out to the Young	p. 127
Interview with Fritz Lang	p. 133
The Sunset of a Poet	p. 146
Dialogue on Film: Fritz Lang	p. 158
Fritz Lang Remembers	p. 175
Index	p. 189
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