MEETING FRITZ LANG When I heard that film director (producer and writer) Fritz Lang would
be attending the World's Fair film festival, I made plans to attend
his press conference. Today he is best known for the feature film
METROPOLIS, which still shows in special theatre showings with
remastered prints and even live orchestras for the 1927 classic.. He
also did M with Peter Lorre in the role that made him famous, the
DR, MABUSE films and his later Hollywood films with stars like Marilyn
Monroe. At the press conference I was able to sit between him and perhaps
Brazil's best director Glauber Rocha who also wanted to meet him. We
are all in one of the accompanying photos, taken at the moment Lang
was telling everyone how Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
personally told him in 1934 that his latest film was being banned as
he grabbed him by the collar, which Lang is doing to me. Lang left
Germany that night. After the press conference he agreed to autograph some photos and
lobby cards from his films that I had brought with me and he did so in
his hotel room upstairs where we were able to talk about his career
for a while.
be attending the World's Fair film festival, I made plans to attend
his press conference. Today he is best known for the feature film
METROPOLIS, which still shows in special theatre showings with
remastered prints and even live orchestras for the 1927 classic.. He
also did M with Peter Lorre in the role that made him famous, the
DR, MABUSE films and his later Hollywood films with stars like Marilyn
Monroe. At the press conference I was able to sit between him and perhaps
Brazil's best director Glauber Rocha who also wanted to meet him. We
are all in one of the accompanying photos, taken at the moment Lang
was telling everyone how Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
personally told him in 1934 that his latest film was being banned as
he grabbed him by the collar, which Lang is doing to me. Lang left
Germany that night. After the press conference he agreed to autograph some photos and
lobby cards from his films that I had brought with me and he did so in
his hotel room upstairs where we were able to talk about his career
for a while.
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