Virtual Film Club

Program Type:

Film Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Virtual Film Club

Each month we pick a culturally or historically significant film for library patrons to watch and discuss. Watch the film on your own time, then meet with our virtual film club to discuss the film on Zoom. Registration is required. Zoom Invites will be sent out via email.

Event Details

This month's film is M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang.

Additional Resources:

GENERAL

 

Original 1931 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdR07aN3uoc  [in German, but an automatic translator for the CC can be activated by clicking on ‘Settings’ icon Image removed. ]

 

Trailer for the 2014 British Film Institute rerelease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsVproWjN6c

 

Turner Classic Movies page for ‘M’: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82216/m#overview


 

REVIEWS/ANALYSIS

 

Brooklyn (NY) Eagle (08-09-1931): https://bklyn.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle-m/56340911/

 

Pare Lorentz, Vanity Fair (May 1933): https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1933/5/the-screen

 

David Keyes, CinemaphileBlog (2013): http://www.thecinemaphileblog.com/2013/09/lessons-from-criterion-m-by-fritz-lang.html#more

 

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times (2013): https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2013-apr-09-la-et-mn-m-review20130405-story.html

 

Roger Ebert (1997): https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-m-1931

 

Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat Gazette (2010): https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/may/21/film-fritz-langs-1931-film-m-first-many-c-20100521/

 

Reel Classic Films (UK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iq-nhzlkxk  (7 minutes)

 

One Hundred Years of Cinema, “How Cinema Asks a Difficult Question”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T8ZKmCvAu4 (8 minutes)

 

Jack’s Movie Reviews, “M: How Fritz Lang Shaped the Modern Movie”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Ebc9PjEhg (8 minutes) 

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR – Fritz Lang

 

Dan Shaw, Senses of Cinema – Biography of Fritz Lang (2002): http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/lang/

 

Michael Gould & Lloyd Chesley, Interview with Fritz Lang (2018): https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/interview-with-fritz-lang-beverley-hills-august-12-1972



 

1968 interview with Fritz Lang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYk0qzqqjmQ  (~28 minutes)

[will need to activate the translator]

 

Biography and career overview at The German Way: https://www.german-way.com/notable-people/featured-bios/fritz-lang/


 

OTHER RESOURCES 

 

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Conversations with the great moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute (Knopf, 2006)      The Fritz Lang chapter is pps. 57-73.

 

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De Forest, Sloan. The essential directors: the art and impact of cinema’s most influential filmmakers (Running Press, 2021)   Fritz Lang is included in the first section, ‘Artists of Light and Shadow’


 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Mike Grost, ‘The Films of Fritz Lang’: http://mikegrost.com/lang.htm#M