Image of the day, 6/27/11

By Glenn KennyJune 27, 2011January 12th, 20267 Comments

Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda, You Only Live Once, Fritz Lang, 1937.

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Jaime says:

June 27, 2011 at 1:41 pm

I think Lang just might be one of my four or five favorite directors.
michaelgsmith says:

June 27, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Did you pick up that Italian blu-ray of this? If so, how is it?
Ryan Kelly says:

June 27, 2011 at 8:17 pm

Such a delightfully pissed off, righteous movie.
Henry Holland says:

June 28, 2011 at 12:50 am

Mein Gott was he handsome then!
Glenn Kenny says:

June 28, 2011 at 9:00 am

@ Michael G. Smith: Yes, I did get the Italian Blu-ray, that’s what inspired this in part. It’s REALLY good, as is the Blu from the same label of Carpenter’s “They Live.” Both will be given capsule reviews in my next Blu-ray Consumer Guide. But I’ll recommend them pretty unequivocally now.
michaelgsmith says:

June 28, 2011 at 11:25 am

Damn, there goes another paycheck.
Asher says:

July 2, 2011 at 10:47 pm

This might be Lang’s best American film. (It’s certainly, at any rate, his most intelligently written and tightly constructed one, as well as the most lyrical thing he ever did here or in Germany.) I say that, though, as someone who detests SCARLET STREET