Monkey Town presents
Silent Films +
Unique Instruments Festival
Battleship Potemkin and Metropolis

Sunday, April 13
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations are recommended

7:30 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN



Sergei Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925, 73 mins.) is a dramatized account of a mutiny by oppressed sailors on board a Russian warship. Its bold visual compositions and provocative storytelling made it an instant classic; eight decades later, it still stands as a powerful propaganda piece and a stunning work of avant-garde filmmaking. This screening features the electronic/orchestral score composed in 2005 by the Pet Shop Boys, and recorded by them with the Dresden Sinfoniker Orchestra.

10:00 METROPOLIS

Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS (1927/1984, 80 mins.) blended Art Deco futurism,
shameless melodrama, class struggle, and a sexy robot into a science fiction masterpiece. Much footage from the 210-minute original has been lost forever; this restored and "enhanced" (with color tinting) version was released by electro-disco producer Giorgio Moroder in the mid-'80s. Moroder also produced the soundtrack, which features Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Jon Anderson, and other New Wave-era rockers. A heady mixture of cinematic art and pop kitsch.