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	Metropolis (1927 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metropolis is a very early science fiction film that was produced in Germany during the brief years of the Weimar Republic.
		Released in 1927, it is a fl and white silent film created by the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang and was the most expensive silent film of that time, costing approximately 7 million Marks (equivalent to around $200 million today).
		The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolis_(1927_movie) (3185 words)

	Metropolis
		The power of the film, and the thing which has enabled it to achieve cult status and its reputation as a masterpiece, is primarily the sheer scale and quality of its images.
		This can be seen in the film’s great set-pieces, which include the legendary laboratory scene (where Maria’s form is merged with that of the robot, the prototype for every mad-scientist scene ever since) and the flood and riot scenes at the end of the film.
		When the film was first released in Germany and the United States, it received a mixed criticism and proved to be a commercial failure.
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	Metropolis (1927)
		Notedly it is the mad scientist not the industrialist, who is responsible for the evil and upsetting the balance of labour classes and is the one who is punished for his actions, while the industrialist benevolently restores the status quo.
		For the film's American release in 1927 nearly a quarter of the reels were removed in order to make the film's approximate 2½ hour running time more palatable for audiences and to eliminate possible Communist messages.
		The Japanese anime Metropolis (2001) however does rework the basics in a fairly loose remake and is a dazzling film in its own right.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/metropolis.htm (2316 words)

	1927 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
		The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
		FOX Films acquires the rights to the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.
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	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Metropolis (1927)
		Sometimes, when a film changes the face of filmmaking thenceforth, it becomes difficult to appreciate it in retrospect: later audiences, accustomed with movies that draw from the styles and techniques of such trendsetters, can't truly appreciate how different and innovative they were.
		This is somehow not the case with Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the patriach of every other movie with futuristic urban dystopias, or wild-haired mad scientists, or the replacement of human beings with soulless machines.
		There are more versions of the film than one can shake a stick at: after Lang delivered a three and a half hour cut to the studio, it was hacked and re-edited time and again, for various theatrical releases in different countries, then later with video and DVD releases.
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	Metropolis Fritz Lang 1927 Film Archive - Bibliography - Introduction. Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frolich, German Silent ...
		Fritz Lang's 1927 silent feature film Metropolis is a landmark in the history of the development of cinema as an artform.
		Nevertheless, and despite the initial critical reception and the age of the film, Metropolis continues to be highly regarded and influential to a new generation of film makers.
		Metropolis' continuing influence on directors and cinematographers is evident in films such as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Dark City (1998), and Star War - The Phantom Menace (1999), all of which pay due homage to Lang's masterpiece through their set design and use of bleak, towering cityscapes.
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	Metropolis (1927)
		It’s pedigree as a silent film turns off the usual science fiction audience and it is sort of a footnote in the history of the genre.
		The film is one of the pinnacles of German Expressionism, astonishing in its use of light and shadow.
		But when you get down to it the best way to view “Metropolis” is not as a film to pick apart but simply as a film of it’s time, Lang created the story of a world gone mad while the world around him was going mad.
	www.jerrydroberts.com /greatestfilms/Reviews/Metropolis.htm (1334 words)

	Metropolis (1927 Re-Release) - Film Trailers @ Ultimate DVD
		"Metropolis," a visionary and elaborate spectacle by director Fritz Lang is an epic projection of a futuristic city divided into a working and an elite class.
		Metropolis is controlled by a sinister authoritarian whose son, Freder, rejects his father's callous philosophy and attitude towards laborers.
		As Freder races against time to save Maria and curtail the damage done by her doppelganger robot, Metropolis is enveloped in chaos and the classes are brought together in a breathtaking and highly moralistic climax.
	www.ultimatedvd.org /nl/trailers/details.aspx?trailer_id=684 (273 words)

	Metropolis 1927 - Film Archive - Posters, Lobby Cards, Postcards - Part 1: 1927
		Metropolis is a film full of spectacular imagery - the robot, cityscape, the workers, and the machines all provided material for the promotional artists of the day, given the task of selling the film to a contemporary audience.
		As a result, Metropolis is well served by posters, window cards and lobby cards, the majority produced by Ufa and Paramount in association with the film's initial release during 1927-8.
		The most notable of the Metropolis posters is the original three-sheet Schulz-Neudamm image, bearing the head of the robot starring blankly out at the viewer, and framed by a background tall skyscrapers and distinctive art deco lettering.
	www.michaelorgan.org.au /Metroja.htm (1386 words)

	Film: Metropolis
		Metropolis lost money, largely because the talkies arrived at around the same time and so-called silent films with their inter-titles and live musical accompaniment suddenly looked obsolete.
		Events would conspire against them and their film was swept aside, quickly fading from the public mind.
		Lang himself declared that he disliked the film when it was finished and nobody seems to like the ending.
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	Metroactive Movies \| 'Metropolis'
		The new restoration of the 1927 silent film Metropolis reveals evidence of criminal vandalism.
		Metropolis is a man's town, devoid of mercy.
		Metropolis is wild and feverish, and yet brilliantly composed.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.19.02/metropolis-0238.html (848 words)

	Adelaide Film Festival \| Films \| Metropolis (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Metropolis, with its vision of a utopian futuristic city 100 years in the future run by workers enslaved underground, maintains its relevance today as we fast approach 2026, when the film takes place.
		At this time, the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendour.
		The Metropolis project begins a new phase and evolution in The New Pollutants sound as this is their first feature soundtrack and their most exciting and challenging project to date.
	www.adelaidefilmfestival.org /films/metropolis.html (343 words)

	Fritz Lang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His most famous films are probably the groundbreaking ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)Metropolis]]'' (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and ''[[M (1931 film)M]]'', made before he moved to the [[United States]].
		In [[1931]], between ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)Metropolis]]'' and ''Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse'', Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: ''[[M (1931 film)M]]'', a disturbing story of a child murderer ([[Peter Lorre]] in his first starring role) who is hunted down and brought to trial by Berlin's criminal underworld.
		These films, often compared unfavourably by contemporary critics to Lang's earlier works, have since been reevaluated as being integral to the emergence and evolution of American genre cinema, ''[[film noir]]'' in particular.
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	Metropolis 1927 - Film Archive - Videos, Quicktime, DVD, Laser Discs
		For example, a version of Metropolis which is meant to be screened at 20 frames per second, might be copied at 16 frames per second, thereby extending its run time by one quarter.
		Cropping of the film picture frame to fit onto a television screen - this is most obvious in the various video versions of Metropolis which have the top 'face' section of the Moloch machine cut off, or scenes where the tops of heads of characters are not visible.
		During the modern conversion process a soundtrack is added to the side of the film, thereby decreasing the amount of space available for the image, which in turn needs to be cropped or reduced in the process.
	www.michaelorgan.org.au /Metrog.htm (1669 words)

	Alpha Omega : News
		But the task was far more difficult than a simple digital process: because the film no longer existed in its original premiere cut, it had to be reconstructed and scanned from separate surviving fragments of different METROPOLIS film prints collected from film archives all over the world.
		Furthermore, the aging film material was strongly bowed, brittle and easily broken; it had suffered many torn perforations, rips and repairs over the past 75 years.
		With that, one of the most important film classics in history was restored in a form more faithful to the original script, and with a superior visual presentation unmatched since its original Berlin premiere on January 10, 1927.
	www.alpha-omega.de /English/E_metropolis.html (1254 words)

	Insight on the News: Auld Lang Syne: a restored print of the silent classic Metropolis includes footage not seen since ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yet even before Metropolis was released in Germany, Lang's studio, UFA, and his U.S. distributor, Paramount, were discussing ways to cut the film from 12 reels to seven.
		Lang described Metropolis as a battle between modern science and the occult --a kind of romantic fatalism that became the director's trademark in later works--but this hardly clarifies the odd mix of social commentary, religious symbolism and melodrama that makes the movie fascinating and frustrating to watch.
		Moroder's pop Metropolis was criticized by purists but introduced the movie to the MTV generation, who could spot Lang's legacy in film's such as The Matrix.
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	Amazon.com: Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) (1927) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS was very successful with both critics and audiences when it debuted in 1927 Berlin--but it was thereafter edited for distribution by Channing Pollock, who disliked it and removed great chunks of the film and substantially altered the storyline.
		Metropolis is a science fiction film but it's also a political statement favoring a christian and humanistic resolution to the raging conflicts between the capitalist magnates and the industrial workers in 1920's Germany.
		Lang's film has many levels; one can approach it politically, in terms of class dynamics or in terms of gender and the representation of woman or its association with the evil, etc. The characters are brilliantly used for conveying the sub-themes in the film.
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	Combustible Celluloid film review - Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang, Gustav Frohlich, Brigitte Helm, dvd review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I acknowledge that the latter two films are beautifully mounted and endlessly impressive on a technical level.
		Seeing the newly restored print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), which opens today at the Castro for a week's run (followed by a two-week run at the Rafael Film Center), I was especially surprised to find myself once again in the same frame of mind.
		Metropolis was written by Lang and his wife at the time, Thea von Harbou.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/metropolis.shtml (1092 words)

	Metropolis (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the future, the society of Metropolis is divided in two social classes: the workers, who live in the underground below the machines level, and the dominant classes that lives in the surface.
		Meanwhile, Johhan decides that the workers are no longer necessary for Metropolis, and uses a robot pretending to be Maria to promote a revolution of the working class and eliminate them.
		When "Metropolis" was shot, it was a romantic revolutionary period of mankind history, with socialist movements around the world.
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	Connecticut College - CC News Stories
		Anthony Kaes, professor of German and film studies at the Berkeley campus, is an expert on the films of Fritz Lang, the director of “Metropolis.” In 2000, his book on the film appeared in the British Film Institute Classics series.
		“Metropolis” is perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films.
		At last we have the movie every would-be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927.” It takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor.
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	Metropolis (1927)
		As the son of Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel), the single-minded ruler of Metropolis, he is free to frolic in the sculpted and beautiful gardens.
		However, because the architecture is designed on such a towering scale and this is a silent film, the acting is often melodramatic and extreme (since this was the only way to project sufficient emotion at that time).
		The result of this is that while Metropolis provides plenty to think about, you don't have to be a film student to enjoy the experience.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Metropolis.html (769 words)

	Silent Era : DVD : Metropolis (1927) Review
		In its truncated form, Metropolis is at times a little confusing — not a big surprise since an estimated one-quarter of the original Berlin release of the film is still missing from surviving prints and some intertitles are badly translated into English and most times intentionally changing the storyline to disguise its choppy, shortened form.
		Metropolis (1927), fl and white, 119 minutes, not rated, with Nosferatu (1922), fl and white, 80 minutes, not rated, and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), fl and white and color, 107 minutes, not rated.
		Metropolis (1927), fl and white, 115 minutes, not rated, with The Wizard of Oz (1925), fl and white, 87 minutes, not rated.
	www.silentera.com /DVD/metropolisDVD.html (3423 words)

	DVD.net : Metropolis (1927) - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The inspiration behind the visual design of countless science fiction films for many, many years after it was made, German director Fritz Lang’s 1926 silent masterpiece Metropolis has had something of a chequered history on home video, a fact that’s due in no small part to the sheer age of the movie.
		But as was the way of the time, the film was extensively recut for different markets, and what entails a “complete” version of the film has been the subject of much contention.
		Fans of the film will be well pleased to have access to a more complete version of this classic on DVD - but it’s not all good news, especially in the quality department.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=695 (690 words)

	Movie Film Essays - Metropolis: An Influential Film Masterpiece
		In 1927, Fritz Lang created a place for himself in the history of cinema when he made and released the film Metropolis.
		Metropolis is considered by many to be a landmark German film.
		For these reasons as well as others, Metropolis is considered by many to be one of the greatest filmic masterpieces of all time.
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	-{ Reel Film }- Next Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Due to the overwhelming popularity of the 1927 film the very next year gave birth to its sequel.
		One reason for the rarity of this film is that it was done in a hurry, is rather cheesy and on a low budget.
		Reel film will be accompanying the silent film our organ player will be playing the original music.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~sanderh/art456/cinema/page04.htm (178 words)

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