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Lang's career represents a triumph over adversity. The maker of epic
silent movies in Weimar Germany, he went into exile with the rise of
Hitler and worked in Hollywood, often without full control or even
choice of subject matter. Yet his films, whether thriller (M, Fury),
sci-fi (Metropolis), western (Rancho Notorious) or psychodrama
(Secret Beyond The Door), display a marvellous integrity. His abiding
concerns are fate, murder, revenge - and, above all, power; and if his
early films now seem to foretell Hitler, he understood that power would
come to equate not with military might, but with control over our
information resources. He's a director for the internet age, and the
most modern of the cinema's old masters.
Alex Jacoby
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