Catch this film tonight: Metropolis

Bet you haven't heard of this one before. We kid, we kid. Fritz Lang's massively influential vision of the future—lambasted at the time of its original release by none other than H.G. Wells—screens tonight at 7:30pm at Queens Theatre in the Park. You can thrill once more to Brigitte Helm's genius double performance as activist Maria and her evil robot doppelgänger, not to mention Lang fixture Rudolf Klein-Rogge as the crazed inventor Rotwang. Consider this an appetite-whet for Kino International's upcoming release of the 210-minute original cut, which Roger Ebert reports on here.