Originally posted on Fantasy/Sci-Fi FILM & WRITING FESTIVAL:
‘Buck up – never say die. We’ll get along!’ Twenty years after he first became a global icon, Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to the silent era with a film inspired by the social struggles of the time. In one of his best outings, Chaplin’s ‘Little Tramp’…
Month: June 2020
23. Metropolis (1927) — 50 Great Films
Originally posted on Fantasy/Sci-Fi FILM & WRITING FESTIVAL:
‘Who is the living food for the machines?’ The most iconic of all silent films, Fritz Lang’s spectacular futurist fable tells the story of one man’s struggle to unite his father’s divided city. Widely panned upon release, Metropolis subsequently emerged as one of the most influential…
