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...Lang and fellow émigré directors Otto Preminger, Max Ophüls, Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak, Edward Dmytryk and Michael Curtiz brought expressionist techniques to the US: off-kilter “Dutch” camera angles,...
...What would the American self-image even be without the serrated comedy of Billy Wilder, the noir menace of Fritz Lang, or the Western fantasias of Fred Zinnemann?...
...“Auld Lang Syne” is playing. Harry (Billy Crystal) is struck by a thought. “What does this song mean? My whole life, I don’t know what this song means. I mean, ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot’?...
...Conrad Veidt, Paul Henreid, Fritz Lang; the kitschy, smouldering Sturm und Drang of Marlene Dietrich; Billy Wilder, whose morbid genius (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard) put strychnine in your laughter...
...Film noir was itself inspired by the same central European imagination as Loos and Neutra’s architecture (film noir directors were often Vienna-born or educated by Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger and Billy Wilder...
...Somewhat arbitrarily, Smedley, a freelance film historian who teaches at London University, focuses on just three European immigrant directors in his final chapters: Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch and Billy...
...The lead is a bland composite of Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock and Tom Courtenay’s Billy Fisher. The whole thing culminates in a slew of speeches and epiphanies....
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