Rudolph Klein-Rogge

Metropolis

April 15, 2003 // 0 Comments

What do "2001, " "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix" have in common, besides their fantastic milieus? They share a common grandfather. Few silent films shoulder the same reputation as Fritz Lang’s watershed 1927 science fiction [...]

Destiny

December 5, 2000 // 0 Comments

’Destiny, ’ Fritz Lang’s 1921 meditation on love and death, weaves the tale of a young couple (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen) en route to their wedding when Death personified (the wonderfully gaunt Bernard Goetzke) takes the young man. Determined [...]