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Metropolis Restored: The Cinefantastique Podcast, 1:14
In Volume 1, Episode 14 of the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski visit the futuristic city of METROPOLIS, the 1927 science fiction classic from director Fritz Lang. The subject of a recent restoration that added over twenty minutes of footage, the film is ripe for reappraisal. [...]
The Making of Metropolis: Creating the Female Robot
In this article, taken from the book Fritz Lang (Oxford University Press, 1977) by Lotte Eisner, the sculptor Walter Schultze-Mittendorf reveals how he created the iconic “false Maria” robot for Metropolis.
The Birth of the female robot in METROPOLIS
By Walter Schultze-Mittendorf
Problems of form? No! Expressionism lived. Technological form had been discovered as motif for painting [...]
Director Fritz Lang on the Making of Metropolis
The best film of the year is easily the newly restored version of Fritz Lang’s science-fiction masterpiece, METROPOLIS which features twenty- five minutes of missing footage that hasn’t been seen since the movie had it’s premiere in Berlin, 83 years ago. This new footage restores important subplots and makes it clear just how badly METROPOLIS had been [...]
Metropolis – restoration trailer
Trailer for the 2009 restoration of Metropolis
Restored Metropolis in theatres
[ August 29, 2010; September 2, 2010 to September 6, 2010. ]
After screenings in Europe, the newly restored version of METROPOLIS (1927), German director Fritz Lang’s silent science fiction classic, made its U.S. debut in Hollywood as part of the Turner Classic Movies film festival. Subsequent play dates are scheduled in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Detroit, Ann Arbor, New York, and Cleveland (full [...]
Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon & Testament of Dr. Mabuse: Cinefantastique Podcast 1:11
This week, the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction podcast turns its eyes back upon two classics of yesteryear, from renowned German master filmmaker Fritz Lang: WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (1933). The first is an ambitious early example of serious cinematic science fiction; the later is a masterful [...]
Lunar Movie Madness: Cinema’s Many Trips to the Moon – A Retrospective
The Moon has long inspired the imagination of humanity. Although the Apollo landing taught every school child that the Moon is uninhabited by aliens, filmmakers continue to find use for the orbiting satellite. Read on for a look at some of the more memorable examples of Moon-based movies…
Lost scenes from METROPOLIS found!
Here is some astounding news. Although METROPOLIS has recently been restored by the Munich Film Museum, many of the lost scenes from the 3 hour version that premiered in Berlin in 1927 were still missing. Now, even more of the missing scenes have been found in South America. A report from the German newspaper Die [...]
Rebuilding Metropolis
InTheNews.Co.Uk alerts us to a remake METROPOLIS:
Fritz Lang’s science-fiction classic Metropolis is set for a 21st century remake, thanks to producers Thomas Schuely and Mario Kassar.
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Alexander producer Schuely has now acquired the rights to update the silent masterpiece.
“With the overwhelming role technology plays in our daily lives, the growing gap between rich and poor, including [...]
