Metropolis: Shiny & Bright (w/ Smashing Pumpkins soundtrack)

August 21,
7:30 pm

Orpheum Theatre
198 Main Street
Saugerties, NY 12477

An Upstate exclusive: the Orpheum habitue and editing wizard Blake Gingerich remixes the classic silent film from 1929 with a Smashing Pumpkins soundtrack. Free for members, $5 for others. This epic fable is set in a future city where a sliver of gilded society lives atop a mountain of subterranean labour. Building on earlier science fiction and endlessly influential, Lang’s film is a mammoth marvel, fusing modernism and expressionism, Art Deco and Biblical spectacle.

“A fully realized work of art whose influence on science fiction, set design and symbolism can scarcely be put into words.”
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch