Consider the premise of Fritz Lang’s god-awful Fury, a Hollywood joke when compared to the masterpieces that Lang made in Germany (Destiny, 1921, both parts of Die Nibelungen, 1924, M, 1931)—perhaps because, like M, this preposterous and fanciful melodrama is grounded in actuality: in California in 1933, the killing by jail-storming vigilantes of two kidnappers […]
Daily Archives: February 22, 2009
According to the IMDb, Julia Zárate “murdered two men,” for which she has been sent to prison, where she deals with “guilt and solitude.” As it happens, this describes some other movie than Leonera, where the twentysomething university student wakes up in her apartment in a bloody mess but hasn’t murdered even one man, including […]
Dennis Grunes 