Metropolis Reborn

Have a look at this article to find out about the restoration of those lost scenes from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis which we mentioned in our Cities of the Future seminar. These missing sections, compensated for in the version we watched by some rather clunky intertitle summaries, are now reinstated in the film, having been found in [...]

The After Hours

In our session on department stores, and in this previous blog post, we noted an interest in after-hours, non-spending exploration of department stores in literature and film. Nora has suggested that we all have a look at another representation of such activity, in an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled “The After Hours” which you [...]

Another Diary Date

Martine reports that Mark Kermode (prominent film critic on British TV and radio, and in Sight and Sound and The Observer) will be speaking at the Cameo Cinema, Home Street, Edinburgh on Monday 8th February at 7.30pm. We presume he’ll be discussing his recently published autobiography It’s Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film [...]