Metropolis
Story of a city of the future in which the workers dwell underground and are slaves to the machines that they operate and their daily monotonous work. Above ground dwells the privileged class of rulers, who live in luxury. The son of one of these ventures below ground and discovers the world there. He also encounters a beautiful girl who ministers to the workers. Worried about her influence on his son and the workers, his father encourages an inventor to create a robot which looks like her.
Nominated by
Ken Russell
Director
If you were talking about films of my own, I would like to nominate Mahler because it epitomises my personal approach to a subject, where one must seek for its innate truth while being free to interpret it, in the same way a conductor can bring a true performance of Mahler's music to life but with his own unique interpretation.
If on the other hand one is talking about films in general, I would nominate Fritz Lang's Metropolis - the most imaginative film ever made.
| Credits | |
|---|---|
| Director | Fritz Lang |
| Cast | Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge |
| Country | Germany |
| Year | 1927 |
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My choice is between Metropolis and Buster Keaton's "The General".
However, for sheer forward thinking, Metropolis gets my vote.
Shame that you cannot vote for a documentary, as I would have chosen Geoffrey Jones' "Locomotion" for telling a magnificent visual story.
ken admits
I have to say Tommy is my favorite film of Ken's. The actors and editing are excellent and it contains one of the wildest scenes I've ever seen with Ann Margret getting very messy.
ken admits
A film student with impeccable taste!
I show The Devils and The Music Lovers to lots of people and have done since they have been available on video as both are still not released on official DVDs which is beyond my comprehension!
ken admits
For me Ken's best are The Music Lovers and The Devils.Recently I showed THE DEVILS to a 23 yo film student studying in london and now thinks The Devils is the best film he has EVER seen.
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