event Metropolis
Also Playing: La Marche Des Machines
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Wed Nov 4
4 pm,
Metropolis and La Marche Des Machines at Museum of Modern Art
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.
Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY
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.
Updated 10/13/2009
