4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on July 8, 2015

There are two types of lover-on-the-run narratives. There’s the Bonnie and Clyde/Gun Crazy extravaganza full of shoot-outs and bloodshed. Then you have the more sensitive approach of a film like They Drive By Night. You Only Live Once fits this second category thanks to two bolstering performa   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on July 8, 2015

There are two types of lover-on-the-run narratives. There’s the Bonnie and Clyde/Gun Crazy extravaganza full of shoot-outs and bloodshed. Then you have the more sensitive approach of a film like They Drive By Night. You Only Live Once fits this second category thanks to two bolstering performa   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Lesley Coffin on December 25, 2013

One of my favorite films from 2013 (my second favorite in fact) was David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.  The 70′s era, Texas set film was compared in many  reviews to Terence Mallick’s The Badlands and Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us.  But an earlier film, Fritz Lang’s You Only Liv   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on October 5, 2013

You Only Live Once Directed by Fritz Lang Written by Gene Towne and C. Graham Baker 1937/USA Walter Wanger Productions Repeat viewing Fritz Lang continues with the man pursued by an uncaring society theme explored in M and Fury.  While this does not hit the heights achieved by those films,...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 7, 2012

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control. Fritz Lang’s second American feature, the first being Fury, continues on building the   read more

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on June 12, 2012

(Image via ebay) Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney) works as a secretary to a big city public defender, Stephen Whitney (Barton MacLane). Joan is in love with a criminal named Eddie (Henry Fonda) who, luckily, is allowed to leave prison on probation with Stephen’s help. Fresh out of the slammer, Eddi   read more