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10 More Events For Royal Albert Hall's 2018 Festival Of Film Added

Michael Price, Metropolis, and Guy Garvey’s first movie score at Royal Albert Hall’s Festival of Film A new British black comedy starring Tom Wilkinson and soundtracked by Elbow’s Guy Garvey is one of 10 special events added to the Royal Albert Hall’s 2018 Festival of Film calendar today. Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back), the debut feature from writer-director Tom Edmunds, which also stars Aneurin Barnard, Christopher Eccleston and Marion Bailey, will screen with a Q&A as part of the venue’s annual celebration of cinema. Also announced are live re-scores of silent classics from Fritz Lang and Charlie Chaplin, a show from improv kings Comedians Cinema Club – as they “ruin your favourite film” – and a Classic Album Sundays special with composer and music editor Michael Price, talking about his work on Sherlock, Children of Men and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. These shows are added to Films in Concert presentations of The English Patient, Jurassic Park, Amadeus and Harr...

METROPOLIS Gets A Limited Edition Box Set For Its 90th Anniversary

Eureka Entertainment to release a stunning new METROPOLIS Boxed Set, in celebration of the film's 90th Anniversary year, featuring Fritz Lang’s silent, sci-fi masterpiece. Limited to just 2000 copies worldwide, and illustrated with newly commissioned artwork specially for this release. The set features 2 x Blu-rays, 1 x DVD and a 100 page book all housed in a HARDBOUND SLIPCASE, Available from 25 September 2017 as part of The Masters of Cinema Series as a Eureka Webstore Exclusive. With its dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot,  Metropolis  is among the most famous of all German films and the mother of sci-fi cinema (an influence on  Blade Runner  and  Star Wars , among countless other films). Directed by the legendary  Fritz Lang  ( M ,  Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse ,  The Big Heat , etc.), its jaw-dropping production values, iconic imagery, and modernist grandeur – it was described by Luis Buñuel as "...