The Best DVDs of 2025
The Best DVDs of 2025 are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies – or shards of glass.
fritz lang
The Big Heat’s Resting Gun
Scenes of a resting gun open and close Fritz Lang’s vigilante film noir The Big Heat, but there are no silenced weapons of any sort in between.
The Top 10 Thought-Provoking Science Fiction Films
Serious science fiction often takes a backseat to the more pulpy, crowdpleasing genre entries. Here are 10 titles far better than any "dogfight in space" adventure.
32 Films That Begin With Leaving a Mental Institution
"Crazy" movies for crazy times. These 32 films make the case for the recently-escaped-or-released-mental-patient narrative as its own subgenre, replete with a language of recurring themes, plot devices, and character archetypes.
Oh, That Tiger!: Fritz Lang’s Indian Epics
Fritz Lang’s Indian epics are hothouse flowers of cinema with gyrating dancers, man-eating tigers, pagan magic, groaning lepers, and mythic moments. Has Lang ever come up with more desperate, mad, or heroic symbols of futile struggle?
I See Music: How Oskar Fischinger Influenced Disney
Remember the pre-CGI visual beauty of Fantasia? Fischinger, who also worked with Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, among others, invented the "lumigraph" (a machine for "playing" colors on screen). This guy should be put on a stamp.
Fritz Lang Shows His Hand With ‘The Spiders’ and ‘Destiny’
From playing with Death to finding a lost Incan civilisation, these two Fritz Lang silents burst with adventure and intrigue.
‘Gold’ Shivers Rather Than Glitters
'Gold' sees Hitler's Germany working out the psychology of power within a bland sci-fi narrative weighed down by leaden acting -- and an excess of feathers.
Cultural Critique, Silent Film Style
These five silent films reveal details about life in America, Germany and France between one colossal war and another.