Celebrating 100 Years of Metropolis

Tribute to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

Ahead of Its Futuristic Anniversary

[as originally published on laweekly.com]

In April, filmmaker and producer Sophia Dunn-Walker plans to host a Los Angeles screening event marking a milestone few films ever reach: the world of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis finally arriving in real time.

The landmark silent film, filmed in 1926 and set in the year 2026, imagined a distant technological future that now overlaps with the present. Dunn-Walker is organizing an event around that moment, built around a screening of Metropolis alongside other works that explore visions of the future and the science fiction tradition it helped establish.

For Dunn-Walker, the event is more than a film screening. It is also personal… READ MORE