Ministry of Fear (1945)

my 2020 movie diary ♥ (39 movies items)

" Ministry of Fear is a WWII film noir espionage thriller featuring Ray Milland as a freshly released prisoner who gets abused by occultist Nazis and a femme fatale who performs bizarre seances. It would just be another run of the mill WWII patriotic American borefest, if not for the fact that it was directed by Fritz Lang. He had a very special German Expressionist touch in the way that he shot his films; with artful shadowy lighting and framing that gave a haunting aura to all of his movies."

Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)

"Fantastical moments abound in Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear, but there’s no superhuman mechanism lurking behind them. Murders are committed for the sake of a cake; a mentalist transforms from a withered hag to a svelte femme fatale; a dusty leather satchel full of books explodes, reducing a hotel room to rubble; and perhaps best of all, Dan Duryea’s Mr. Cost dies twice, with ample time to sneeringly dial a rotary telephone with a pair of gargantuan scissors in between his deathly appointme"

Anautix' Movie Diary 2018 (163 movies items)

"27.05.2018 my rating: 7,0"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2018: April (24 movies items)

"First viewing - April 21st I finished my Saturday marathon with Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear, a solid thriller that I'd picked up while browsing the library's Criterion section. I was very engaged with it (far more so than the film above), and I liked the characters well enough. The plot even had some surprises for me, or maybe I just was too busy enjoying the way it played out to figure out where it was headed. I doubt that I'd go out of my way to watch it again, but I wouldn't mind revisitin"

My Movie Highlights of the 1940s (+Watchlists) (126 movies items)

"my rating: 7,0"