The Woman in the Window

#11 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. I'd say that this is the point where Fritz Lang was firmly planting his feet in the film noir genre. Made in the same year as Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, it's a formational film to the genre, using shadows extensively, as Lang had been doing since his…

Ministry of Fear

#23 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. It's interesting to read that both Fritz Lang and the source novel's author Graham Greene were unhappy with this film. It's not Lang's greatest work, but it entertains well enough. It's also the first Hollywood film from Lang that, I feel, really looks like a Lang film…

Hangmen Also Die

#20 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Fritz Lang revisited the procedural formula he had perfected in M while having to (and probably choosing to willingly) introduce elements that clash with that bedrock, making the unsentimental take on a hunt for an assassin more melodramatic than it should be while also bringing in a…

Man Hunt

#18 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Fritz Lang made a quality John Ford film in Western Union, and then he made a quality Alfred Hitchcock film in Man Hunt. Echoing Hitchcock's later British period like The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and his early Hollywood film Foreign Correspondent (of which…

My Best Friend’s Exorcism – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnXdofVyZTI I sort of know Grady Hendrix who wrote the source novel. The book is fun (I think I like his first book Horrorstor more), and I've been looking forward to this adaptation for a while, and now there's a trailer! Directed by Damon Thomas, who seems to be cutting his teeth in television, it's…