Cities Monsters
Cities of the future
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Metropolis 1926 G Fritz Lang’s famous super-production in the recently restored Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation version. Dystopian melodrama at its most hysterical, with dynamic images of mobs, machines, doppelgangers and a female robot that is still frightening. No one forgets the malign futuristic city dominated by the coldblooded industrialist, Alfred Abel. Fri 17 Oct 6.00pm / Cinema A |
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Just Imagine 1930 All ages This science-fiction tickle refashions the décor of Metropolis into the setting for a musical comedy. El Brendel flies his rocket ship to Mars so he can prove himself worthy of his girlfriend. Mars, he learns, is inhabited entirely by good and evil twins, and visitors can never be certain to whom they are speaking. Complications ensue. Sat 18 Oct 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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Things To Come 1936 All ages The classic adaptation of the H. G. Wells story with stunning futuristic sets by Alexander Korda and designs by the surrealist artist John Armstrong. During World War Two England is bombed back into the Stone Age and out of the ashes, a technocratic dictatorship emerges. A handful of scientist-aeronauts turn things around and within one hundred years, a technocratic dictatorship has sprung up featuring a futuristic maze of spiral rooftops and fantastic flying machines. But another war looms…. Thu 9 Oct 12 noon / Cinema A |
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The Fifth Element 1997 PG Bruce Willis zooms through a real-looking twenty-third-century New York designed by the legendary French cartoonist Jean (Moebius) Giraud. He’s helping a semi-divine, but not invincible extra-terrestrial (Milla Jovovich) who is trying to save the universe. The first views of futuristic Manhattan are alone worth the ride. Fri 17 Oct 8.30pm / Cinema A |
