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DIRECTOR: Fritz LangGermany : 1927 : 147MINS : English intertitles : G
"seeing it with a new soundtrack played live by The New Pollutants was at times literally breathtaking." - Empire Times
Every generation re-discovers Metropolis in a new form. In the 1980s it was Giorgio Moroder’s disco version. At our 2005 festival we screened the film to sell-out houses and critical acclaim with a new score performed by local outfit The New Pollutants. The Advertiser praised this as "a once in a lifetime experience"—but no! In 2008, the most complete print yet of the film was discovered in an Argentinean archive, containing an additional 25 minutes of footage. So, we couldn’t ignore the opportunity to go back to the future and give Adelaide another chance to experience Fritz Lang’s visionary sci-fi masterpiece with the Pollutants’ unique accompaniment combining Germanic trip hop and lo-fi electronica.
Metropolis is a visual tour de force combining art deco and expressionist design. It intersects with our Imagined Worlds visual effects strand through the inclusion of Eugen Shüfftan’s pioneering photographic effects, which used mirrors to place actors into elaborate models of sets. Dare you miss an opportunity to see for the first time one of the great landmarks of world cinema (a film without which Blade Runner could not exist) in a near-complete version?
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| Sat 5 Mar | 6:00 PM | Piccadilly Cinema 1 | Wishlist A wishlist is a list of sessions you are interested in. It DOES NOT put sessions on your pass. It DOES NOT create a booking for this session. It adds this session to the list of sessions you are interested in. Simply click the wishlist icon when logged in to add or remove this session from your wishlist. Indicates session is currently in your wishlist. Indicates session is not currently in your wishlist. |
SCREENWRITER: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
PRODUCER: Erich Pommer
CAST: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
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CINEMATOGRAPHER: Karl Freund, Gunther Rittau
Special visual effects: Eugen Shüfftan
FESTIVALS: (2010 Restoration) Berlin, Hong Kong
DIRECTOR PROFILE: Fritz Lang was born in Vienna in 1890. After serving in the First World War, he became a story editor and writer before going on to direct. He left Germany when the Nazis came to power and re-located to the US where he spent the bulk of his career, dying in Los Angeles in 1976. His career highlights include: Doktor Mabuse der Spieler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), M (1931), Fury (1936), Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).