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'''METROPOLIS. Fritz Lang, dir.''' Germany: Ufa, 1926. Available in alternate versions, including attempts at restoration.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%281927_film%29#Restorations] | '''METROPOLIS. Fritz Lang, dir.''' Germany: Ufa, 1926. Available in alternate versions, including attempts at restoration.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%281927_film%29#Restorations] | ||
| − | Classic silent film of immense influence and continuing artistic value. We see in the film an apparently elevated pleasure-city for the elite and a mechanized underground portion of the Metropolis, where mechanized workers tend the city's machines. An important work for a robot femme fatale and the motif of mechanized underworlds; cf. [[ANDROID (film)]], [[A BOY AND HIS DOG]], [[THX 1138]], and [[EX MACHINA]] in this Category, and see under Fiction, E. M. Forster, "[[The Machine Stops]]," and H. G. Wells, ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and ''[[First Men in the Moon]]''. | + | Classic silent film of immense influence and continuing artistic value. We see in the film an apparently elevated pleasure-city for the elite and a mechanized underground portion of the Metropolis, where mechanized workers tend the city's machines. An important work for a robot femme fatale and the motif of mechanized underworlds; cf. [[ANDROID (film)]], [[A BOY AND HIS DOG]], [[THX 1138]], and [[EX MACHINA]] in this Category, and see under Fiction, E. M. Forster, "[[The Machine Stops]]," and H. G. Wells, ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and ''[[The First Men in the Moon]]''. |
Revision as of 19:39, 25 February 2021
METROPOLIS. Fritz Lang, dir. Germany: Ufa, 1926. Available in alternate versions, including attempts at restoration.[1]
Classic silent film of immense influence and continuing artistic value. We see in the film an apparently elevated pleasure-city for the elite and a mechanized underground portion of the Metropolis, where mechanized workers tend the city's machines. An important work for a robot femme fatale and the motif of mechanized underworlds; cf. ANDROID (film), A BOY AND HIS DOG, THX 1138, and EX MACHINA in this Category, and see under Fiction, E. M. Forster, "The Machine Stops," and H. G. Wells, The Time Machine and The First Men in the Moon.
RDE et al., initial; shortened 25Feb21
