Category Archive for: ‘Issue 24 – Classics & Re-runs’

When Giorgio Moroder offered the world his music-enhanced version of Metropolis (Germany, 1926) in 1984, the publicity materials contained, as if in justification, this remark by the film’s director, Fritz Lang: “I was primarily a visual artist. I never had an ear, and I regret it”. Lang sometimes modestly presented himself in interviews as a director essentially formed in the visual aesthetic …

Hello Ina Just reading your webpage on the history of Drive-ins in WA. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/19/drive-ins-WA.html Excellent work, I must say. Just one thing though. In the second last paragraph under the heading “Issues of management and ownership…”, you mention that “The commercial operators, whether suburban or rural, sold the land when they could. Suburban operators sometimes made large profits, when the …