Metropolis

MOVIE #1,825 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 07.19.24 FRITZ LANG: DIRECTOR FOCUS The soundtrack for the version I watched was incredibly annoying so I wound up playing Pavement. Slanted and Enchanted works really well, if you’re looking for an alternative score. I have nothing to say about this other than it’s clearly one of the greatest films ever made. Made nearly a 100 years ago, it’s still brimming with a creativity and weirdness that puts most modern movies to shame.

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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €21 million. It was released on January 10, 1927.