(Fritz Lang/Giorgio Moroder, 1927/1984 Germany/US, 82 min., Digital Projection)

New Restoration! Fritz Lang may have foreseen the future in his epochal sci-fi silent Metropolis, but he never could have envisioned his allegory of labor and capital scored to the likes of Pat Benatar and Freddie Mercury. Lamenting previous mutilations of Lang’s masterwork, record producer Giorgio Moroder der set out on a definitive restoration, compiling the longest version then available but also adding color tints, sound effects, and a dance-ready soundtrack of ’80s synth-pop. Out of circulation for almost three decades, Kino has digitally restored the film from one of the last surviving prints. Today it looks less like a provocation and stands as both a controversial landmark in the history of film preservation and a utopian fusion of past, present, and future.