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Metropolis - the complete digital restoration!

Aug 30 to Sep 2
Monday through Thursday 2:30, 5:15, 8:00

Dir. Fritz Lang - 1927 - 148m - Germany - intertitles in English

In July 2008, it was announced that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang’s visionary masterpiece METROPOLIS had been found at the Buenos Aires Museo del Cine in Argentina.  It included not merely a few additional snippets, but 25 minutes of scenes (one-fifth of the complete running time) considered lost for 80 years.  From conception to completion, the restoration took nearly a full year and cost almost $1 million to complete.  This digitally restored footage and Gottfried Huppertz’s magnificent original score provide the closest version to the director's original vision since its premiere in 1927. 

In the future, Metropolis, is a bustling city-state where two groups make up the population. The thinkers live above ground and enjoy the fruits of life, while the workers live underground creating the fruits that the thinkers enjoy. When Freder Fredersen, the son of the city leader, journeys underground with Maria, advocate for the workers, he witnesses first hand the horrors that the workers live in. Can he and Maria bring the parties together or will the thinkers further dominate the underground workforce?

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Sep 3 to Sep 4
Friday and Saturday 10pm & 12 Midnight

Dir. Tommy Wiseau - 2003 - 99m - All Seats $7 - Burning Paradise members are $5

If you thought BIRDEMIC was a hilariously crummy-wonder flick, well we got some more of that kind of cinematic good times comin' your way!  

This is one of those rare laugh-riots that is so fantastically inept as to border on genius. While most bad movies offer a handful of terrible scenes divided by stretches of just plain dull, writer-director-producer-star Tommy Wiseau's film offers one moment of disaster after another.  Whether it's the made-up-by-fifth-graders dialogue, the deer-in-headlights performances, or the positively icky sex scenes (love those smushed rose petals on the chubby girl's back), you'll be howling from start to finish.

Keep an eye out for the pointless insert shots of San Francisco, which give the idea of time passing even when it doesn't: one party scene, for example, features eight of these cut-aways.

But at least it's entertaining, albeit in ways that the lazy-eyed, odd-bodied, English-mangling auteur never imagined. Not to be missed.

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