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Film captures 'futuristic fantasy'
By Greg Lukow
The Sheldon Hon or Fantasy Series
film this weekend is Metropolis, one of
the most spectacular isions of futuristic
fantasy in the history of film.
Perhaps the biggest movie project of
the German silent screen, this 1926 film
was directed by the cinema's master of
the paranoic, nightmare fable, Fritz
Lang (Die Neibelungen, M. Rancho
Notorious). It is the story of a huge city
in some future century where the ideal
rich control the lives of the poor working
class. These slaves plod through their
exhausting daily routine in gigantic,
cavernous, .underground cities and
factories. '
In addition the film has a love story,
some fascinating scenes of horror and
science fiction, religious overtones, an
underground flood, several scenes of
near hypnotic eroticism and a fuzzy-
haired, mad scientist whr creates a
female robot.
Many elements of the film have dated
badly over the years. Some of the
overacting is comical and the story line,
(written by Lang's wife) that ends with a
hokey reconciliation between the labor
ers and their masters, has never been
satisfactory.
But the rest of tne movie has always
been the imagination and technique
used in bringing the massive, looming
metropolis to the screen. Publicity at the
time the picture was produced claimed
that the film had over 35,000 extras in it
and Lang's designing and handling of
huge masses of people is almost
-architecture in itself.
Showings are at 3, 7 and 9 p.m. this
Friday and Saturday at the Sheldon Art
Gallery.
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daily nebraskan
friday, September 13, 1974