Metropolis Articles
Long-Unseen Giorgio Moroder-Revamped METROPOLIS to Have North American Screenings
Another Metropolis rerelease? As Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin would say, "You Betcha!" (Yikes. Sorry. I just couldn't resist.) As the Kino Lorber press release explains, back in 1981, three-time Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder (Midnight Express, Flashdance, Top Gun) began a three-year endeavor to restore Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi classic, Metropolis. At the time, Moroder came up with a contemporary score for the film [...]
METROPOLIS, Frank Capra, Agatha Christie: BFI Southbank Screenings
Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (top); Jack Holt, Fay Wray in Frank Capra's Dirigible (middle); Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Roland Young, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson in René Clair's And Then There Were None (bottom) London's BFI Southbank will be screening several Frank Capra efforts today and on Saturday, in addition to films based on Agatha Christie's works and the restored Metropolis. Most notable among [...]
San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2010: METROPOLIS, Norma Talmadge, Louise Brooks, John Ford
Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang's Metropolis (upper middle); George O'Brien (center) in John Ford's The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge in Sam Taylor and Henry King's The Woman Disputed (bottom) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival kicks off on July 15 with a screening of John Ford's The Iron Horse, at 7 p.m. at the Castro Theatre. [...]
Eric Cantona, METROPOLIS, Kristen Stewart, DRAGON TATTOO, Insects: Box Office
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (top); Eric Cantona, Ken Loach on the set of Looking for Eric (middle); Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in The Runaways (bottom) Below are weekend box-office figures (via Box Office Mojo) for a couple of dozen movies currently playing in North America in less than 1,000 theaters. Still doing well are Juan Jose [...]