For Your Eyes Only: Ops, Surveillance, and Saboteurs
For your eyes only: ops, surveillance, and saboteurs
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Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: Der grosse Spieler, Ein Bild der Zeit (Teil 1) (Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler: The Great Gambler, A Picture of our Time (Part 1)) 1921 PG Fritz Lang’s first criminal mastermind, the master of disguises, who forever reinvents himself in order to control all levels of society. Like Caligari, Mabuse has a hypnotic gaze that paralyses and kills. In Part 1 he is the renowned psychiatrist who works gambling dens and boudoirs to bring victims of both sexes under his control. Sun 23 Nov 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: Inferno, Ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit (Teil 2) (Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler: Inferno, Men of our Time (Part 2)) 1922 PG In Part 2, Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) continues his demonic course, until he finally becomes the spectator of his own nightmares, descending into madness. Sun 23 Nov 3.00pm and Sunday 7 Dec 2.00pm / Cinema A |
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Spione (Spies) 1928 All ages Frtiz Lang's thriller-kolossal. Rudolf Klein-Rogge stars as the master criminal Haghi who reveals that in Domietta Torlasco’s words, “evil, like filmmaking, is an art.” He uses all the instruments of modern technology (the train, the telephone, photography) to steal government secrets and become the Secret Hand that rules Weimar Berlin. Sat 22 Nov 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (M – A town is looking for a Murderer) 1931 M Peter Lorre plays the pathetic child murderer pursued by both the law and the underworld. Music is limited to the Peer Gynt theme, which torments the murderer and announces his presence. A German classic, Fritz Lang’s first talkie has been credited with formulating two genres: the serial killer movie and the police procedural. Fri 21 Nov 6.00pm / Cinema A |
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Ministerium der Angst (Ministry of Fear) 1944 All ages Ray Milland, in an asylum for the mercy killing of his wife, is released into the chaos of wartime London. He finds that, beneath the bombs, nothing is as it was — nor as it seems. A cake purchased at a bizarre bazaar gives him unwitting entrée to a Nazi spy ring operating under a strangely spiritual mantle. Thu 20 Nov 12 noon / Cinema A |
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The Black Book (aka Reign Of Terror) 1949 All ages Robert Cummings as a courier for Lafayette working undercover to effect the downfall of Robespierre (Richard Basehart), the monstrous Puritan of the French Revolution, who operates out of sinister digs behind a bakery. Paris is reinvented as a city of angles and shadows, a labyrinth of clandestine meetings, ruses, and false loyalties. Thu 20 Nov 2.00pm / Cinema A |
