Somehow, Metropolis's urban re-vision expressed as science fiction just becomes more and more relevant. Set in the year 2000, it depicts the effects of technological society on workers who exist below ground-one level lower than the machines-and who are ruled by a "supertrustee" who lives with his collaborators in the paradisiacal garden of Yoshiwara. Lang even posits a virtual woman cloned from people's-hero Brigitte Helm. Luis Buñuel called Metropolis "a glorious symphony of movement...the rhythmic progression of wheels, of pistons, of hitherto unimagined mechanical shapes..." This ballet of machines and men set against Lang's monumental geometric architecture deserves its new 35mm print, made from a Munich Filmmuseum restoration.