If you need any evidence that we’re living in some kind of Golden Age of movie animation, look no farther than “Metropolis,” the latest example of imported Japanese anime — and one of the more ...

Starring: The voices of Jamieson Price, Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi and Koaki Okada. Screenplay: Osamu Tezuka and Katsuhiro Otomo. Director: Taro Rin. Rated: PG-13 for ...

An upstart Chicago troupe, Naked Eye Theatre Company, is taking on an alter ego identity of sorts in the suburbs, where the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights has become a second ...

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated: PG-13 (violence). At the Empire and the Sunshine. MOST young American moviegoers wouldn’t think of going to see something by Akira Kurosawa or other Japanese ...

This review originally appeared in Issue #1 of Paste Magazine in the summer of 2002, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. Metropolis’s action begins as an elderly detective and his ...

The magnificently restored print of Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece “Metropolis” appeared for the first time at Cinestudio a few months ago. If you missed it then, do not make the same mistake twice.

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 ...

About the Album: The future of robots and humans . . . as predicted by Osamu Tezuka. Based on the classic comic by legendary illustrator Osamu Tezuka, Metropolis has been brought to the screen by two ...

The new restoration of Fritz Lang’s futuristic 1927 masterpiece “Metropolis,” completed to mark the 75th anniversary of its release, is such a revelation it is like seeing this frequently revived ...