Fritz Lang

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q19504: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 8 people by that name, the one in film or television.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Metropolis (1927); M; Manhunt; The Woman in the Window.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

After Hours (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · them, directly: Fritz Lang ⇒ After Hours (the maker said so: Scorsese's own account of his influences on the film). Lang's nighttime nightmare noirs (M, Manhunt, Woman in the Window) were influences.
    “And then some Fritz Lange movies. like M, Manhunt, Woman in the Window, you know, nighttime noiry, nightmare movies, stuff like that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:51:36 · unknown host (0.35 sure it was them)

Express Yourself (Madonna video) (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual homage) · through Metropolis (1927), which they directed: Metropolis ⇒ Express Yourself (Madonna video) (the host's read). A host says Express Yourself is obviously modeled on Metropolis.
    “This one is obviously modeled on Metropolis, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:09:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (4) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (visual style): Uncle Buck → Fritz Lang. An anonymous commenter said Uncle Buck has the mise en scene of a 1940s Fritz Lang film noir.
    “why does Uncle Buck have the mise en scene of a 1940s Fritz Lang Fox Noir”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:15:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (influence): Fritz Lang → After Hours. Lang's nighttime nightmare noirs (M, Manhunt, Woman in the Window) were influences.
    “And then some Fritz Lange movies. like M, Manhunt, Woman in the Window, you know, nighttime noiry, nightmare movies, stuff like that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:51:36 · unknown host (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Fritz Lang → Jonathan Demme. Lang was a bracket entry like Demme: a filmography they feared was too long for people to want.
    “He was a guy much like Jonathan Demi, where we were like, that might be a little bit too long for that guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Joel and Ethan Coen → Fritz Lang. The Coens had the most first-round votes of anyone.
    “The Cohen brothers received the most votes numerically out of any filmmaker in the 1st round.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Stanley Kubrick → Fritz Lang. The speaker predicts Kubrick will beat Lang despite Lang's run of surprises.
    “I think Kubrick probably bodies laying as much as Lang has surprised us every single matchup.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:29:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Fritz Lang: Lang made the final four unexpectedly; had he been alive he would be 132.
    “He would be 132 years old, which would be pretty cool.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:19:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)