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Metropolis is the film that Fritz Lang is best known for. Premiered in 1927, this incredibly ambitious and technologically innovative vision of futuristic purgatory practically bankrupted UFA, the enormous German film studio. The extraordinary beauty of Lang’s expressionistic city and the brilliant special effects of Eugen Schuefftan, overpower the argument that belittles Metropolis for its excessively maudlin, and at times incongruous plot. Metropolis was one of the first true science fiction movies, and its influence on films such as Alphaville and Blade Runner is very apparent. Lang’s Marxian depiction of capitalism and industrialism gone...
bankrupted UFA, the enormous German film studio. The extraordinary beauty of Lang’s expressionistic city and the brilliant special effects of Eugen Schuefftan, overpower the argument that belittles Metropolis for its excessively maudlin, and at times incongruous plot. Metropolis was one of the first true science fiction movies, and its influence on films such as Alphaville and Blade Runner is very apparent. Lang’s Marxian depiction of capitalism and industrialism gone awry prophetically predicts many of the problems that plagued the twentieth century. Some dislike what they see as an oversimplification of capitalism, and accuse Lang...
...diplomacy, West and his distinguished colleagues appear to have dropped the ball in two major respects. First, it diminishes the standing of black scholars at Harvard when media seekers such as Jesse Jackson are brought in to presume to mediate what should have been a private dispute. If brilliant Harvard educators, including Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, cannot exercise sufficient negotiation and conflict management skills to resolve a simple communication dispute without bringing in Jackson—whose own moral authority is now in question—then what message does that send...
...sudden roaring blast of the burners shatters the morning peace, as our pilot John forces the balloon higher. By now, a brilliant sun has burned off the early morning chill. We sail over Cessnock, an old mining town laid out like a chessboard, as a 75-carriage coal train snakes through the countryside. Another blast and we lift to 300 m. From that height we can see a 40-km stretch of the valley?a lush strip running east to west. To the north flows the mighty Hunter River and on the southwestern horizon rises the magnificent Brokenback Range. Tawny...
...Anthony Appiah is irreplaceable,” Gates said. “He is the most brilliant philosopher of Afro-American studies at work today...