FRITZ LANG (in Hollywood)

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And they said the youth of today wouldn't turn out the vote.

Blue Gardenia was lots of fun--Peter Lorre as evil nightclub owner in preposterously-huge-stairwelled nightclub.

that's a decent ranking (tho Fury is upper-echelon)

I WAS thinking of 'Black Angel'. Damn. I know I've seen 'Gardenia' - [check IMDB to remind self] - ah, the Anne Baxter passes out, wakes up to a murdered man one. Yeah, that was quite good. My memory, obviously, is not.

For UK ILXers, Sky Arts 2 are kicking off a Lang season on Thursday, starting with Metropolis and an hour-long conversation with William Friedkin from the 70s. Hoping they mix up the German classics with the Hollywood work.

Sylvia Sidney is seriously sexy in 'You Only live Once'

is that Friedkin interview on a Criterion disc?

Human Desire released yesterday; got a copy at home.

Film Forum will show his American films for the next two weeks.

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-other-fritz-lang-20110127

I am pissed that I have to miss Moonfleet.

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I caught Scarlet Street / Woman in the Window the other weekend at the Film Forum. Great stuff, I can see why Scarlet Street topped this poll!

and it's not as great as the film it's a remake of!

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Woman on the Window >>> Scarlet Street

Gosh, Stanwyck and Ryan in Clash By Night put Method actors to shame.

Just got done w/While The City Sleeps--freaking awesome.

Haha! Actually just watched "Fury" again. Was he the best at capturing the "look" of the underworld/criminals? Especially in his 30s flicks. Great movie.

Rancho Notorious...goddamn.

Got a copy of Ministry of Fear, given the Criterion treatment.

Saw the three featuring Joan Bennett recently, Man Hunt, The Woman in the Window, and Scarlet Street.

In Man Hunt it confused me why Walter Pidgeon as the British "Captain Alan Thorndike" did not have the appropriate accent - I was kind of expecting that to come up later as a plot point, but no, it was just that Pidgeon didn't bother with an accent. But then Joan Bennett did attempt a cockney accent...............

Watching Dan Duryea in the other two films led me to think Jon Lovitz modeled his pathological liar character "Tommy Flanagan" from SNL on Duryea's chiseler characters here. Same voice/inflection.

I thought it was a goof that Edward G. Robinson does a double take when he sees Duryea as a doorman at the end of Woman in the Window but imdb says it's "incorrectly regarded as a goof." I say the point's arguable.

Always love when Greenwich Village is portrayed in old films such as Scarlet Street as being full of painters and subterranean Italian restaurants. Were that it were like that today.

Ranking:

The Woman in the Window > Scarlet Street > Man Hunt

man, Scarlett Street is SO much better than Woman in the Window... twist ending is promising but given up too soon I think!

EGR just going monkeymode on Joan Bennett with the icepick in Scarlett Street is some of the most brutal and violent shit I've seen in any classic Hollywood film

I like SS but WITW is more realized. I haven't seen either in years, though.