The world we live in today is not exactly like the future Lang and von Harbou imagined - although the Maschinenmensch, the robot fashioned in the image of the heroine of Metropolis to deceive and ...

Čapek coined the term “robot” in this work telling of the creation of robots to replace workers. It ends, inevitably, with the robots' violent revolt against their human masters. Fritz Lang’s 1927 ...

Danette Chavez Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent masterpiece is one ... One of the first feature-length sci-fi movies ever made, Metropolis was a huge undertaking that took multiple years and the modern ...

The Doctor and Belinda are together at last! The Time Lord’s mysterious quest to find her for reasons we still don’t know has wound up with him now unable to get her back home again. But with that ...

BR Editor Iwan Fox looks at the wide variety of musical inspirations being explored, examined and endorsed in the bids to win ...

Brigette Helm gave dual performances as Maria and the robot in Metropolis between the ages of 17 and 19, during a taxing shoot typical of director Fritz Lang. Her breakout role is a dazzling one – she ...

Following performances by legendary tenor Plácido Domingo, renowned pianist Lang Lang, and the beloved tenor Andrea ... further enhancing its reputation as a vibrant international metropolis. See also ...

The film has the tagline “find someone made just for you,” and revolves around a group of friends on a vacation that erupts into chaos after discovering one of their friends is a robot created ... to ...