Cinematic Cities

Cinema + Cities (and the space in between)

[theartofmoviestills]

Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 1990

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Hugh Ferriss: The Lure of The City, 1925

Many people seems to be mistaking the name of this drawing as “The Metropolis of Tomorrow,” but the title of the drawing is “The Lure of The City.” The Metropolis of Tomorrow is the name of a book where this drawing appears, which was published in 1929. This comment may seem trivial to certain people, but thinking of Hugh who was disappointed by works of architects in New York at that time, and decided not to work as an architect but as a renderer, it is important to know that this drawing was titled as a “lure” of the city, and not as “tomorrow” of the city or any cities.

[movies-across-time-and-space]

Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | Germany

You just could gif every frame of this movie.

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Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

[weirdvintage]

Famous architects dressed as their buildings, 1931

L-R: A. Stewart Walker (Fuller Building), Leonard Schultze (Waldorf-Astoria), Ely Jacques Kahn (Squibb Building), William Van Alen (Chrysler Building), Ralph Walker (1 Wall Street), D.E.Ward (Metropolitan Tower), Joseph H. Freelander (Museum of New York) (via Retronaut)

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Buster Keaton’s “One Week” (1920)

It’s almost here again………

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From F. Percy Smith’s The Birth of a Flower (1910).

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Entr’acte - René Clair (1924)

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Metropolis

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Day 18: Metropolis (1927)

(Black and White Wednesday)

There isn’t really much I can say about this film. Metropolis is not a film for everyone, alot of people, especially those who watch film purely for leisure would find it hard to sit through. I know i’ve said it before, but this is another one of those influential films, the difference being this one is especially important in the history of film. Arguably the single most important, this film was directed by Fritz Lang the father of futurism. At the time this was made, even the world “robot” had no value, it was not a term used yet. It truly is an ageless masterpiece that will be an eternal source of inspiration for film makers. It is a silent film, alot of it missing, know one knows how long the film originally went for because it was badly damaged, it was luck any of it at all was recovered.

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Orfeu do Carnaval, Marcel Camus, 1959

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Peter Lorre in M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 

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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene - 1920

Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) dir. Robert Wiene with Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher. (1920, Germany)

[fuckyeahbehindthescenes]

Shooting of the film was a draining experience for the actors involved, due to the demands that Lang placed on them. For the scene where the worker’s city was flooded, Helm and 500 children from the poorest districts of Berlin had to work for fourteen days in a pool of water that Lang intentionally kept at a low temperature. (x)

Metropolis (1927)