Metropolis - Thomas Elsaesser (BFI Film Classics) Crime Drama writer-director Mike Leigh reached new

writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy with this exploration of the deceptions

Starring a commanding Gian Maria Volontè and with a droll

Includes 32-page booklet

Thomson tells the history of filmmaking through individual profiles of significant directors in his wonderfully personal style

maybe delusional

Metropolis - Thomas Elsaesser (BFI Film Classics) Crime Drama writer-director Mike Leigh reached new'Metropolis by Thomas Elsaesser' (BFI Film Classics paperback) Elsaessar brings his signature academic rigor and love of film to bring a new approach to Lang's seminal cinematic work. This special edition also includes a new forward which considers the "lost" footage of Lang's, discovered in 2008.