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Feb 20, 2024 · Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang’s vision of a grim futuristic society and containing some of the most impressive images in film history. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.)
Mar 28, 1998 · According to Patrick McGilligan's book Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast, the extras were hurled into violent mob scenes, made to stand for hours in cold water and handled more like props than human beings. The heroine was made to jump from high places, and when she was burned at a stake, Lang used real flames.
Jul 5, 2020 · Home. Movies. Movie Features. Metropolis: Why The First Sci-Fi Movie Is Still One Of The Best. By Quinn Hough. Published Jul 5, 2020. Directed by Fritz Lang, Metropolis remains one of the best science fiction movies ever made. Here's why it will always be relevant and influential.
Fritz Lang claimed to have been inspired to make Metropolis by his first glimpse of the New York skyline. The result is the grandest science fiction film of the silent era (and for many years to come), a seminal prediction of a megacity where the masses work as slaves for the good of a ruling elite.
In the pioneering science fiction feature film, Metropolis tells the story of man and machines living alongside one another, whether one rules the other or enslaves the other no one can truly know for sure: unless you live in the privileged The Tower of Babel.
Oct 21, 2010 · Oct. 21, 2010. Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis,” surely one of the most intensely studied and widely imitated films of the silent era, grows more complex and mysterious as time goes on. This is...
Sep 11, 2010 · Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is greater still in this newly restored version, writes Philip French
