Last week it was the head clamp from A Clockwork Orange, for this week's Movie Gadget Friday Josie Fraser reaches back to the silent era with the False Maria from Fritz Lang's Metropolis: German ...
The secondary antagonist of Fritz Lang s silent science fiction classic Metropolis, Rotwang is tasked by the city s tyrannical ruler with completing a robot lookalike of Maria, the leader of the ...
On Sept. 11, 2002, many of us New Yorkers spent the day contemplating a skyline robbed of its most potent symbols, which were also meant as symbols of the towering dominance of world capitalism. By ...
The 1927 silent epic is one of the most influential films ever made. One would be hard pressed to find a modern film which even attempts to encompass as much social commentary as Metropolis does ...