Silent Film expert Pamela Hutchinson introduces the new version of Metropolis with rediscovered footage.

As Pamela herself says: No WLTUC screening of Lang’s sci-fi masterpiece would be complete without a discussion of the labour politics at the heart of the film, it’s true. But equally, you can gaze upon the gothic futurist splendour of it all – and remind yourself where all those other, more recent, sic-fi movies stole all their best ideas.