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lang

 (lăng)
adj. Scots
Long.
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lang

(læŋ)
adj
a Scot word for long1

Lang

(læŋ)
n
1. (Biography) Cosmo Gordon, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth. 1864–1945, British churchman; archbishop of Canterbury (1928–42)
2. (Biography) Fritz. 1890–1976, Austrian film director, later in the US, most notable for his silent films, such as Metropolis (1926), M (1931), and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932)
3. (Biography) Jack (John Thomas). 1876–1975, Labor premier of New South Wales from 1925–27 and from 1930–32, who introduced much social welfare legislation and was dismissed by the governor, Sir Philip Game, in 1932 for acting unconstitutionally
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Lang

(læŋ)

n.
Fritz, 1890–1976, U.S. film director, born in Austria.

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language.
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Several chapters are devoted to the work of Max Mack, Franz Hofer, Asta Nielsen, and Fritz Lang. Other themes discussed include metaphors, stereoscopic visions, techniques and technologies of the early German musical film, and the role of Universal in the transition to sound in Germany.
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It can be mechanistic, as in the robotic clock dance of moving arms that a teenager and her friends perform--reminiscent-of the factory workers in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
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It has been fifteen years since I first saw Fritz Lang's M for the first time, and still, after all these years, the hairs on my neck stick up and my hands get clammy if I hear even just a few notes of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King." It's probably one of the most sampled pieces in music history, and still all I can hearlike a long, hollow, interminable echois the sound of Peter Lorre whistling this tune all throughout M.
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Cirkopolis inspires itself from the aesthetics of the Fritz Lang film, Metropolis.
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With stately satire, German expressionist master Fritz Lang, of "Metropolis" authorship, plays himself as the project's cynically aloof director.
Throwback Thursday: Godard's masterpiece Le Mepris still smoulders
This edition of the festival will also be presenting a carefully curated section of Restored classics from across the globe, which includes the recently completed restorations of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Tarkovsky's Sacrifice among some other notable films.
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The likes of Jacques d'Amboise, Fritz Lang and Brian Epstein all play minor roles in the history of You'll Never Walk Alone, a song which the ikes of Roy Orbison, Judy Garland, Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash have all recorded among many others.
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The 1953 classic film noir was directed by Fritz Lang. It's about a cop who takes on a crime syndicate after his wife is murdered.
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He even cites a quintessential indie-kid film, Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), as inspiration for the Warehouse's look.
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