Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Down
Fritz Lang was a great stylist, but also he didn't perhaps quite know when to give up. And I always wish I liked his last film in Hollywood, Beyond a Reasonable Down,. His most schematic film. It's all about, it's so schematic, it kind of doesn't really breathe as a film. The acting is pretty wooden, I think. But there's a kind of, you can see in a sense it's the quintessential Fritz Lang film, but it has none of the style. He was a deeply ambivalent figure really, because of that. We've talked a lot about, quite rightly, about Fritz Lang as a great stylists. But there
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