Source: Mental Floss Metropolis at 90: The Enduring Legacy of a Pop Modernist Dystopia. Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction epic is more popular now than it’s ever been. * ‘Comfort Women’: The Past and Present of Japan’s Forced WWII Prostitutes. It’s still a sore subject officials would rather

Reinhard Heydrich--the man whose name sounds suitably like a Germanic adjective for Hydra-like, inasmuch as the man's specialty in his creation of the German Sicherheitsdeinst, or Security Service, the dreaded SD within the SS that made Canaris' Abwehr look positively warm and kissy--might be one

How talented was the person of Fritz Lang, what an artist! Every bit the cinematic compatriot of F.W. Muranu, subject of yesterday's rhapsody, the two men yet could not be more different in terms of sensibility and personality. Far more concerned with the concrete aspects of the darker side of

The Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci Couture Spring/Summer 2012 Collection was inspired by Yakov Protazanov’s « Aelita : Queen of Mars » and by Fritz Lang’s « Metropolis ». To read about other « Metropolis »-influenced collections, search for the « Metropolis » post that I have published on May