Over the years I’ve seen Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” countless times in various states of ruin and restoration, and for the most part found it hard to disagree with the conventional wisdom: beautiful ...

Fritz Lang's extraordinary sci-fi classic is set around the year 2000. So it seems appropriate that it gets this beautiful two-disc DVD revival courtesy of the digital technology of today. TECHNICAL ...

“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 ...

Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two ...

Film fans around the world were ecstatic to learn of last week's discovery of the original version of Austrian-German director Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis, thought lost for decades.