Moonfleet (Lang, 1955): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
This double-bill (with Night and Fog) is part of the Serge Daney season at the ICA. Details here.
ICA introduction:
Fritz Lang’s Moonfleet and Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog
are two films that influenced Serge Daney’s understanding of cinema and
the world early on, shaping the moral and aesthetic poles of his
cinematic universe. Their influence would be felt throughout his career
as a critic.
Chicago Reader review:
Fritz Lang’s only film in CinemaScope (1955, 89 min.) is one of his most
neglected features, at least in this country. (In France there’s a
deluxe edition on DVD made especially for high school students.) A kind
of 18th-century fairy tale about an orphan in Dorset (Jon Whiteley)
who’s adopted, after a fashion, by a smuggler (Stewart Granger), this
classy MGM production was adapted from a novel by J. Meade Faulkner by
Margaret Fitts and Jan Lustig, and its dreamlike sense of wonder is
equaled only in Lang’s German pictures. John Houseman produced, and
Miklos Rozsa wrote the stirring score; the fine secondary cast includes
George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, and Viveca Lindfors.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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