COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

4° FriTz lAng’s : MeTropolis
5° Andy WArhol’s : TrAsh
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It’s a
milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal
sense, and the “theme” belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience
the film’s pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we
couldn’t, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in
public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation
restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be
lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity
and the characters’ individual trajectories. Metropolis takes place in
2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in
the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor.
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Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Germany 1927
KALTBLUT
Trash is a 1970 American film directed and written by Paul Morrissey.
The movie stars Joe Dallesandro, transsexual Holly Woodlawn and Jane
Forth. The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout
his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day
and centers around Joe’s problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually
frustrated girlfriend (Woodlawn). During the course of the day, Joe
overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into
approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy,
and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
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Director: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn Jane Forth
USA 1970
3° shinyA TsukAMoTo’s : The iron MAn
The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director
Shinya Tsukamoto. The film opens with a man, cutting open a massive
gash in his leg and then shoving a large threaded steel rod into the
wound. Later, upon seeing maggots festering in the wound, he screams,
runs out into the street, and is hit by a car. The driver of the car, a Japanese
businessman, and his girlfriend try to cover up the mess by dumping
the body into a ravine, but the dumped man gets revenge by forcing
the businessman’s body to gradually metamorphose into a walking pile
of scrap metal. This process starts when the driver finds a piece of metal
stuck in his cheek while shaving. He tries to remove it, but realizes it is
growing from the inside.
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Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan 1989
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