This evening at 6:30 p.m. I'll present Fritz Lang's amazing 1933 film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse as the inaugural feature of an eight-week series I'm hosting at the Grand Army Plaza-located central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, called "Shades of Noir: Forerunners, Classics and Variants." The whole point of the series is to mix acknowledged noir classics with pictures that are at the very least implicated in the genre. With its intimations of the supernatural, Testament may strike some as an impure noir. But then there's the paranoia…
I'll introduce the film and lead a brief discussion afterwards. If you're in the vicinity, drop by, it should be fun.
What a sweet lineup.
If you, like me, were not in NYC, then luckily TCM is airing “Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse” at 11:00pm EST tonight, October 4.
That Fritz Lang…Godard knew it back in the early 60s with Contempt and we know it now. He work just gets better and better with age.