futuristic cities

Cinematic Visions of Metropolises to Come

issue forty-three To celebrate the release of Fritz Lang’s restored silent classic Metropolis, we look at cities of the future with an article on Escape from New York and a Reel Sounds column on Things to Come while Ed Hollis tells us why he would be Wall-E if he were a film character.

In the cinema releases, we review The Last Exorcism, Herzog’s brilliant farce My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, the harsh and beautiful hillbilly tale Winter’s Bone and Gaspar Noe’s latest provocation, Enter the Void.

New DVDs include Richard Fleischer’s take on the Leopold and Loeb murder case Compulsion, starring Orson Welles, and animé series Full-Metal Alchemist, and we have a comic strip review of Pet Shop of Horrors, courtesy of the Queen Mum.

We interview Frédéric Temps, founder and director of the wonderful L’Etrange Festival and Frank Cole is the subject of this month’s Colonial Report from the Dominion of Canada. In Short Cuts, we take a look at the intriguing short film Aston Gorilla.

In the blog, we have an opinion piece on the much talked about A Serbian Film, as well as reports on the Film4 FrightFest and Shinsedai festivals. ■