One of the biggest, strangest, maddest films in cinema history. Fritz Lang’s 1927 film is a crazed futurist epic, a mythic sprawl with something of Jung and Wagner, and dystopian nightmare about a city-state built on slave labour, whose prosperity depends on suppressing a mutinous underground race whose insurrectionist rage is beginning to bubble. Metropolis…Continue readingMetropolis
Category: Silent Film
This month’s film is Blancanieves (Cert12) A band of bullfighting dwarves save the life of a young woman suffering from amnesia. A astonishing take on the Snow White story set in 1920s Seville. Watch the trailer here Blancanieves (12) 2012, Spain, 1hr 44mins (Silent) Friday 27th June Doors & Bar 7.30, Film starts at 8.00pmContinue readingBlancanieves