‘Exiled German Here to Direct Film Marvels” read the June 19, 1934 newspaper headline reporting the arrival in New York of the “monocled, broad-shouldered, blonde and blue-eyed” Fritz Lang.

Marvels, indeed.

Over the next 20 or so years, the Austrian-born filmmaker – who before fleeing Germany and the Nazis had directed such gems as “M” and “Metropolis” – would make an amazing string of dark and brooding American films dealing with, in Lang’s words, the “fight against destiny, against fate.”

BAM Rose Cinemas has gathered 15 of the movies for the series “Fear and Fury: The American Films of Fritz Lang.”

The retro kicks off this week and runs most Mondays and Tuesdays through Oct. 22.

The opener, tomorrow and Tuesday, is “Fury” (1936), in which an ordinary man (Spencer Tracy) on the way to marry his sweetheart (Sylvia Sidney, a favorite of Lang’s) is falsely arrested for a kidnapping and forced to face a lynch mob.

Lang was notoriously demanding and difficult, often ordering take after take of single scenes.

In his 1997 Lang bio, “The Nature of the Beast,” Patrick McGilligan reports that the entire cast and crew of “Fury,” even superstar Tracy, grew to loath the man.

Other flicks in the series include “Ministry of Fear” (1944), “Scarlet Street” (1945), “The Big Heat” (1953) and “While the City Sleeps” (1956). The complete schedule is at http://www.bam.org.

BAM Rose Cinemas is on Lafayette Avenue, off Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn.

* Meanwhile, a newly restored version of Lang’s German sci-fi epic “Metropolis” continues its run at the Film Forum (Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue).

* Guy Maddin’s luscious “Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary” has been picked up by Zeitgeist Films, which will open it at the Film Forum next spring.

The Canadian auteur’s one-of-a-kind adaption of a Royal Winnipeg Ballet standard won raves when it kicked off the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center last month.

“This is the most faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel – except they’re dancing,” Maddin told the SRO audience.

* Readers keep asking when Jean-Luc Godard’s “Eloge de L’Amour” (“In Praise of Love”) is going to debut here.

The big day is, at the moment, Sept. 6 – but don’t bet on it. The film was originally due April 26, then postponed several times.

* The homoerotic “Caravaggio” (1986), by maverick British director Derek Jarman, gets a one-week revival starting Wednesday at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater (Avenue A and Third Street, East Village).

Nigel Terry plays the bisexual, 16th-century painter, with Tilda Swinton as his mistress and Sean Bean as the male object of his desire.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post. He can be e-mailed at vam@nypost.com