Unless and until you've seen Fritz Lang's 1927 visionary classic, Metropolis, you have only a debatable right to exist in this magical present of ours, with its flying cars and moon bases; if I was a serial killer you'd be just the sort of uninformed buffoons I'd go after, but now's your chance to save yourself, and eat some good vegan food!

^Quinxy

Here's the movie info from the Silent Movie Theatre website:

We're proud to welcome Metropolis, one of the greatest films in the history of the medium, back onto the Cinefamily screen, this time in its newly-restored 2 1/2 hour version! According to its original press release, Fritz Lang's pioneering science-fiction epic had it all: "8 stars, 25,000 men, 11,000 women, 1,100 bald people, 250 children, 25 Negroes, 3,500 pairs of special shoes, 50 cars." And that doesn't begin to describe the wonders of Lang's Expressionist Tomorrowland! Powered by the unconscious energies boiling up from the Zeitgeist as his country lurched toward fascism, Lang's titanic imagination produced indelible images that have lost none of their power to astonish -- and, under his direction, the ravishing Brigitte Helm gives the iconic dual performances of a lifetime as gentle teacher Maria and the devastating Machine Man made in her image. This new, 145-minute version of the film, which owes its existence to the chance discovery of a 16mm dupe negative found in an Argentinean archive, is the result of two years worth' of painstaking collaborative restoration on the part of several German film organizations; come and see this classic in a brand-new way, as it was originally intended, for the first time! Dir. Fritz Lang, 1927, HDCAM, 145 min.

Restaurant has valet parking for $2.50 or there's walk-a-few-blocks street parking. Movie theater has metered or pretty easy residential parking.

Movie tickets are $11 (online). I strongly recommend you Buy your tickets now! They had to turn people away at their showing last month. If they sell out online, not to worry, they don't seem to have ALL their tickets available online, so you can probably still buy them at the event, we'll just need to make sure you get there early.

(The couches we traditionally get in line early to secure are pre-sold for this show, so don't expect a couch!)

By RSVPing you agree to our No Show and RSVP Change RULES!

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