The 1927 silent classic got a few technology predictions wrong but was scarily on the mark about workers' rights and ...

Despite being almost a century old, an ambitious sci-fi movie keeps influencing the entire genre due to its revolutionary ...

Metropolis is, without a doubt, my favorite movie. The 1927 Fritz Lang film has been influencing pop culture for decades, and is still one of the most celebrated films of all time. If you've never ...

The original science fiction blockbuster, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” is a high-water mark in the late silent era. Released in 1927, the same year as the first talkie, “The Jazz Singer,” it’s a parable ...

In 1984, Giorgio Moroder released his newly restored version of director Fritz Lang’s silent 1927 sci-fi blockbuster Metropolis. In stark contrast to various scholarly restorations before and since, ...

"Metropolis," Fritz Lang's freaky, futuristic man vs. machines masterpiece, has the most jumbled running-time history. Few films have been subjected to so many reissues, rereleases, re-cuts and ...

On January 10, 1927, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” premiered in Berlin at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. The silent sci-fi masterpiece was met with mixed reviews at the time but would go on to be one of the most ...

“Death to the machines!” The cry goes out once again as the longest-ever restored form of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) now lands on DVD, as dense and crazy and maddening as ever. So much of our ...

One of four known one-sheets from Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece could fetch $1 million in bankruptcy court-ordered sale. By Andy Lewis Metropolis Poster Art - P 2012 Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly owns ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis,” surely one of the most intensely studied and widely imitated films of the silent era, grows more complex and mysterious as time goes on. This is partly because the movie has ...