The National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the Musueum's exhibition Unbuilt Washington. Things to Come: The City Imagined on Film screens films that feature striking alternative visions of urban life.

METROPOLIS
Friday, February 24, 7:30 pm
Please note special tickets prices for this film listed below. 

Live Musical Accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra!
Incorporating more than 25 minutes of recently discovered footage, the 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. The integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy tuber-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers—orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them
both. Taking inspiration from New York’s skyscrapers, the film’s production design exaggerates Metropolis’ verticality, using modernist architecture to reinforce the extreme separation of the classes.  (Note courtesy of Kino Lorber)
DIR/SCR Fritz Lang; SCR Thea von Harbou, after her novel; PROD Erich Pommer. Germany, 1927, b&w, 148 min. NOT RATED

Ticket Information:

Please note special tickets prices for this film: $20 General Admission|$18 AFI and NBM Members

BUY TICKETS THROUGH AFI.com/Silver  Tickets may also be purchased at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day).  Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, Silver Spring Metro, Red Line.