In an era where special effects are common place, it’s startling to go back and see how filmmakers from a different era built fantastical worlds without so much as a pixel. One of the most staggering ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Back in 1984, music producer-composer-singer and self-professed “father of disco” (that alone could get him roughed up in some ...

More stories by Nigel M. Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” seems to be the classic that keeps on giving. With several versions of the film available on DVD, last year saw the “definitive” edition of the film, ...

In the early 1980s, Giorgio Moroder made a name as a composer and producer of electronic music, working on the films Midnight Express and Flashdance. So it seemed a surprise when he produced a ...

Today? Today is a very good day. News has come that one of the single greatest film masterpieces ever is on its way to Blu-ray high definition, and it has us grinning from ear-to-metallic-ear! Harry ...

In 1984, the battle raged: Either Giorgio Moroder had done the cinema a favor by assembling the most complete version yet of Fritz Lang’s silent 1927 masterpiece — or the composer-producer had Cheez ...

There have been many attempts to recreate the score of Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist science-fiction epic. Countless musicians have unleashed their interpretations of the classic score, ...

Here's a surprise. Earlier today, Harry Knowles at Ain't It Cool News revealed that Kino International will be bringing Giorgio Moroder's 1984 presentation of Metropolis to Blu-ray and DVD later this ...

Despite what you might believe, you’ve never really seen Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.” For all its revivals and restorations, unless you happened to be among the film’s world-premiere audience at the Ufa ...

Kino Lorber has picked up U.S. rights to Giorgio Moroder‘s 1984 version of “Metropolis,” which added a new score from ’80s pop acts including Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury and Bonnie Tyler. Moroder, a ...

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