Metropolis (1927)

Classic screening. New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films—the inspiration for science fiction epics from Star Wars to The Matrix to name just two. However the Metropolis we have seen until now has been incomplete—the product of desperate distributors and overzealous editors in the 1920s. For years, it was believed that the Lang’s original 2½ hour cut had been lost to time. Until 2008, when a cache of film was discovered at Buenos Aires’ Museo del Cine in Argentina. More than 25 minutes of ‘new’ footage has now been painstakingly restored. Accompanied by a new recording of Gottfried Huppetz’ original score, Metropolis is the crowning achievement of German Expressionist cinema. Nearly 100 years after its first release, Lang’s vision of a dystopian future—where the rich live in splendid luxury, while a literal underclass toil in a vast subterranean workshop—can be seen as the director originally intended "Each frame of this classic is drop-dead stunning." - New York Daily News "An eternal masterpiece." - Daily Telegraph (UK) "A visually awe-inspiring science fiction classic from the silent era." - Rotten Tomatoes "Here is the starting-point of so much modern cinema." - Independent (UK)

Listed by New Farm Cinemas (Five Star)