FILM FILINGS 8-10-24
Jordan Poss reviews Gladiator II and more; Witty reviews the 1951 Joseph Losey remake of the Fritz Lang classic “M”; Nathan Gilmore has something to say about Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons; Sam Stephens reviews the 1996 disaster epic Daylight starring Sylvester Stallone.
Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: Reviewed
The horror wrapped inside this crime drama is named Dr. Mabuse, a genius in the criminal underworld, uninterested in personal gain—he is an ideological madman perpetuating crime to destroy society.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: An Analysis
A gleaming android stares mechanically at the viewer, its round, lidless eyes glowing with the light of some unexplained inner mechanism. A subterranean city peopled by the poor, ruled by a totalitarian state above. A wild-haired scientist bedecked in a white lab coat works feverishly at the controls of some mysterious apparatus…