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Saturday, Jul 23, 2016
6 PM (111 mins)
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SUBJECTS
M
(M: mörder unter uns), (M - eine stadt sucht einen morder)
Digital Restoration
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke,
Fritz Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where it is difficult to distinguish morally between the activities of organized crime and organized law enforcement. Peter Lorre gives his immortal performance as a pathetic child murderer pursued by both the law and the syndicate. In the rigor of its construction—which fuses atmosphere with plot and image with sound to express a kind of entrapment that is at once psychological and based in reality—M is a precursor not only to the films that the Vienna-born Lang made in America, but to American film noir in general.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Thea von Harbou
- Fritz Lang
Cinematographer
- Fritz Arno Wagner
Language
- German
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 99 mins
Source
- Kino Lorber
CINEFILES
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M / M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Morder (program note), Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2002
M (program note), National Film Theatre (London, England), 2000
M (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2000
Second time around: M (review), SF Weekly, Gregg Rickman, 1997
Fascinating rhythms (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1997
M (flyer), Kino International Corporation, 1997
Stormy weather (review), Village Voice, J. Hoberman, 1997
M (program note), Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Fritz Lang, 1996
Fritz Lang (article), American Film, Andy Klein, 1990
M (review), Village Voice, Tom Allen, 1987
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