Dec 28, 2021
Joining me today for a shorter
but another in-depth discussion is the wonderful co-host of
Christmas Movies Actually, Kerry
Finegan. Over a year ago, she asked if I had done an episode on
this director yet and of course, this is one I have wanted to cover
for quite some time having only seen a couple of his films two
decades ago. As stated in the episode, there simply has to be a
sequel in the future for this name because we have so much left to
cover mainly his very accomplished work in film noir! A couple of
those I highly recommend when I reveal my list of
favorites.
Austrian-German filmmaker
Fritz Lang, who is sometimes referred to as the
“inventor of film noir," was initially known as a silent film
director that made an eventual science fiction cult classic known
as METROPOLIS. But as we both say in this episode,
M stands for masterpiece so we cover that title
along with his first feature made in America with Spencer Tracy,
FURY, along with THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE. For the what we
watched segment, I bring up the little-seen coming-of-age dramedy
PINK SKIES AHEAD and there is also a review of a certain MATRIX
sequel that has just come out as well.
00:00 - 07:28 - Introduction
07:29 - 31:13 - What We Watched Recently
31:14 - 01:37:31 - Fritz Lang Discussion
01:37:32 - 01:46:36 - Top 3 Films / Outro