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Metropolis

June 2023

  • Metropolis still

    Apple TV+ remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled due to US writers’ strike

    The $188m eight-part series was to be filmed in Melbourne but has been shelved because of ‘push costs and uncertainty’

March 2020

  • Amazingly topical ... the 1927 film Metropolis.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen … Metropolis

    As part of a new series, one of our writers finally catches up with the cinematic classic they’ve somehow missed. Today, Stuart Jeffries watches Fritz Lang’s pioneering sci-fi epic

October 2018

  • Dead reckoning: Nosferatu; Overlord; Frankenstein.

    Steve Rose on film
    Does JJ Abrams's war film Overlord really need added zombies?

    The traumas of the first world war led to the horror film as we know it. But the reality of conflict will always be more affecting than CGI monsters

April 2018

  • Deadly civil war chase … Buster Keaton in 1927’s The General.

    My favourite film decade
    From Nosferatu to The General – why the 1920s is my favourite film decade

    Chaplin and Keaton made millions laugh, but silent cinema’s greatest classics were the fruit of wild European fancy … and then Hollywood invented the talkies

March 2015

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    Philip French's classic DVD
    Metropolis review – Philip French on Fritz Lang’s visionary epic

    After nearly 90 years, this dazzling dystopia is finally available in a version faithful to its creator’s intentions

January 2015

  • A poster for The Terminator, 1984

    The top 20 artificial intelligence films - in pictures

    Michael Hogan picks his top 20 films; including Star Wars, The Terminator, Star Trek and Blade Runner; that star A.I. beings who have challenged what it means to be human

November 2014

  • Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in Gravity

    Film blog
    Settling a score: movie soundtracks that should be removed

    The producers of Gravity have released a version with no music at all. It could help. Which films do you think need better soundscapes, asks Stuart Heritage

June 2014

  • Singin' in the Rain

    The glorious folly of dance on film

    From Singin' in the Rain to The Full Monty and Strictly Ballroom, dance films celebrate our human capacity for improvised, limitless joy. By Michael Newton

November 2013

  • Still from the Fritz Lang film, Metropolis

    Film blog
    Top 10 silent movies

    Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist?The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made. From City Lights to Metropolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best

June 2012

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    World's most valuable movie poster up for auction

    Heinz Schulz-Neudamm poster for Fritz Lang's Metropolis, one of only four surviving copies, is due for auction again. Will it break its own record for most expensive film poster ever sold?

March 2012

  • Top Selling Film Posters - Metropolis (German poster), 1927

    The 10 most expensive film posters – in pictures

    A new record for the price of film memorabilia is expected to be set with the sale of a rare Metropolis movie poster – yours for $850,000. In the meantime, here’s a guide to the top 10 most expensive posters of all time

February 2012

  • Rooney Mara arrives at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood

    Fashion blog
    Future-proof: How Metropolis still inspires fashion

    The Artist may have won the Oscar for best costume, but the fashion world has taken its inspiration this season from Fritz Lang's 1927 spectacular sci-fi silent film Metropolis. Why does its stunning German expressionist design still inspire so many?

November 2010

  • Factory chimneys, Metropolis

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

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    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

October 2010

  • Still from the Fritz Lang film, Metropolis

    The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time
    Metropolis: No 2 best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time

    Fritz Lang, 1927

September 2010

  • METROPOLIS 1927 UFA film

    Metropolis

  • My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

    This week's new films
    This week's new films

  • Fritz Lang's Metropolis

    Metropolis

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    Re-release of Metropolis proves that silents are still golden

April 2010

  • Film poster for Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang

    Film blog
    The view: Why Metropolis will be this year's real summer blockbuster

    Danny Leigh: Eighty-three years after its premiere, Fritz Lang's masterpiece, now restored with 25 minutes of lost footage, is sure to blow all those 3D vehicles and Hollywood franchises out of the water

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