Metropolis (film) Summary
Fritz Lang

Metropolis Although made at the UFA Studios in Germany, Fritz Lang's visionary silent film Metropolis (1926) was inspired by a visit the director had made to New York, on whose skyline its mass... Read more

Austrian-born American Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was one of the world's great film directors. He played a major role in shaping two national cinemas: the German during the 1920s and early 1930s (with fil... Read more

Critical Essay by Lotte H. Eisner These days many passages in Metropolis seem old-fashioned and even vaguely ridiculous, especially those in which the Kolossal is overlarded with sentiment. Lang had n... Read more

Critical Essay by Iris Barry If "Metropolis" fails to be quite a great film, the fault lies, not with its brilliant German producers, nor with its subject matter, nor with the actual tre... Read more

In the following essay, Williams discusses the narrative structure of Lang's Metropolis using A.G. Greimas's system of analysis. This study will attempt a narrative analysis of Fritz Lan... Read more

In the following essay, Neumann discusses the urban architecture of Lang's Metropolis in light of contemporary thought about monumentalism, technological progress, and skyscrapers. Fritz Lang&#... Read more