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METROPOLIS
Sunday, January 5
3:30
Tuesday, January 7
2:40
Monday, January 20
6:10
Germany, 1927
Directed by Fritz Lang
Based on Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis
With Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Approx. 148 min. DCP.
In the city of the future, while the rich live well above, the workers below are a bad #2 to the machines. Architecture-named Lang’s futuristic nightmare merges Deco with German Expressionism, “dominated by cubistic architecture and the geometric patterns created by painted shadows and surging crowds.”
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“One of the last examples of the imaginative — but often monstrous — grandeur of the Golden Period of the German film, METROPOLIS is a spectacular example of Expressionist design.”
– Pauline Kael, New Yorker
“The starting-point of so much modern cinema.”
– Anthony Quinn, Independent
“One of the icons of the silent era.”
– Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times