event Metropolis

German director Fritz Lang returned throughout his career to tales of the criminal underworld and angry mobs, even in his 1927 silent science-fiction allegory Metropolis. While employing elaborate sets, imaginative action sequences, and dreamlike special effects to tell a story of class struggle, Lang never lost sight of the people beneath his enormous edifices. Brigitte Helm plays an underground worker who exposes Gustav Fröhlich (the son of a futuristic society’s cold leader) and the other “thinkers” to inhumane conditions in the mines. Metropolis remains a marvel of design, and it still has the power to thrill and unnerve. This screening is the 1984 Giorgio Moroder cut of the film, which includes a score stocked with such early ’80s heavy hitters as Freddy Mercury, Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, and Adam Ant.

German director Fritz Lang returned throughout his career to tales of the criminal underworld and angry mobs, even in his 1927 silent science-fiction allegory Metropolis. While employing elaborate sets, imaginative action sequences, and dreamlike special effects to tell a story of class struggle, Lang never lost sight of the people beneath his enormous edifices. Brigitte Helm plays an underground worker who exposes Gustav Fröhlich (the son of a futuristic society’s cold leader) and the other “thinkers” to inhumane conditions in the mines. Metropolis remains a marvel of design, and it still has the power to thrill and unnerve. This screening is the 1984 Giorgio Moroder cut of the film, which includes a score stocked with such early ’80s heavy hitters as Freddy Mercury, Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, and Adam Ant.

German director Fritz Lang returned throughout his career to tales of the criminal underworld and angry mobs, even in his 1927 silent science-fiction allegory Metropolis. While employing elaborate sets, imaginative action sequences, and dreamlike special effects to tell a story of class struggle, Lang never lost sight of the people beneath his enormous edifices. Brigitte Helm plays an underground worker who exposes Gustav Fröhlich (the son of a futuristic society’s cold leader) and the other “thinkers” to inhumane conditions in the mines. Metropolis remains a marvel of design, and it still has the power to thrill and unnerve. This screening is the 1984 Giorgio Moroder cut of the film, which includes a score stocked with such early ’80s heavy hitters as Freddy Mercury, Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, and Adam Ant.