Over the years I’ve seen Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” countless times in various states of ruin and restoration, and for the most part found it hard to disagree with the conventional wisdom: beautiful ...

Despite what you might believe, you’ve never really seen Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.” For all its revivals and restorations, unless you happened to be among the film’s world-premiere audience at the Ufa ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The opening shots of the restored “Metropolis” are so crisp and clear that they come as a jolt. This poor mistreated masterpiece has been seen until now ...

Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has long been recognized as a si lent-film masterpiece and a seminal science-fiction epic, even in versions that were as much as an hour shorter than the one shown at its ...

Few images from the silent film era linger in contemporary pop culture more than the dreary futuristic landscapes of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.” Whereas Charlie Chaplin remains the paragon of cinema’s ...