New Lang box set

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'Silent Pick: Fritz Lang Epic Collection'
_Film Comment_ 40.6. New York: Nov/Dec 2004, p. 79.

"It's doubtful that anyone has ever surpassed silent Lang for sheer graphic
power and density -- these are images with weight, dimension, and punch. And
while it's been possible to discern said power in the many crummy,
gray-on-gray videotapes that have been circulating for years, we can now
have a crisp, ravishingly beautiful facsimile of the real thing in our own
homes. Let's all hail Kino for their box set ($99.95). We've already known
the wonders of their transfers of Metropolis and the Die Niebelungen saga,
but now they have given us Spies ('28), hands down one of the most exciting
criminal caper/mastermind films ever made, and the undervalued Woman in the
Moon ('29), Lang's beautiful swan song to silence, not to mention the movie
that, according to Thomas Pynchon (in _Gravity's Rainbow_), originated the
idea of the pre lift-off countdown." -- Kent Jones

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