Arclight Hollywood
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Metropolis
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Monday Jan 7, 2008 (8pm)
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$12
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Note: A Q&A follows with Daily Variety's John Burlingame and special guest Dr. Cornelius Schnauber.
Perhaps Fritz Lang's finest two hours, Metropolis partially arose from his first sighting of a 1920s nighttime New York skyline. The reel's mechanized monuments stem from this real-life revelation, as the imposing architectural patterns become the first symptom of the alienated, all-too-efficient future society. With a caste system separating the masses of subterranean slaves and the elevated, decadent elite, the film captures the incipient phase of a literal social groundswell led by Joan of Anarchy, Maria. The megalomaniacal master's son does a Buddha-like pirouette after witnessing the workers' suffering, while his father fabricates another agenda. A Socialist sci-fi fever dream, the film reverberates far after its concluding pandemonium.
