WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS with Fritz Lang at the Film Forum

Fritz Lang is well known for the films he made in Germany. Not wanting to be told what to do by anyone, let alone the Nazis Lang left Germany for France and then America. Lang made twenty-one American features in twenty-one years. The critics found his American work sub-par to his German masterpieces. Getting on his back for making Film Noir and Pulp films. Lang's pessimistic view was perfect for these types of movies. The best of these have gritty scripts like the police drama The Big Heat (1953) and While the City Sleeps. (1956) While the City Sleeps is set in a news room where a race is on the find the Lipstick Killer. The publisher (Vincent Price) has set the bar high for the men fighting to get the new job of running the company. This is not the whole story. There is a short of love story filled with sarcasm and drunken advances. On top of all this is the Killer with all his mother issues. Lang makes New York a very twisted place While the City Sleeps.


Do not miss the rest of Fritz Lang's American films at the Film Forum!!
Most shows are two for one admission:

THE BIG HEAT back by demand with daily showtimes through Tue. Feb. 8 - Separate Admission.

Thur. 3rd HANGMEN ALSO DIE! & CLOAK AND DAGGER.
Fri. & Sat. 4Th/5Th MINISTRY OF FEAR & MAN HUNT.
Sun. & Mon. 6Th/7Th CLASH BY NIGHT & RANCHO NOTORIOUS.
Tue. 8Th HOUSE BY THE RIVER & Raymond Burr in THE BLUE GARDENIA.
Wed. & Thur. 9Th/10Th YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE & YOU AND ME.
Thur. 10Th BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT - Separate Admission.
Thur. 10Th Spencer Tracy in FURY - Separate Admission.