Metropolis (2001)

Smith, Holmes deal with highs, lows of senior years
Alexis Holmes, left, and Kelsey Smith are the Tahoe Daily Tribune’s co-female athletes of the year at South Tahoe High. Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a four-part series honoring the Tahoe Daily Tribune’s 2009-’10 Whittell and South Tahoe high school athletes of the year.
Metropolis Trailer

Dream Theater - Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York $8.45 Like many progressive-rock groups from King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Yes to Genesis, Rush, and Queensryche, Dream Theater has followed its own musical and artistic agenda, trends and hipness be damned. That single-mindedness is borne out on Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York, a full-length concert video shot at Roseland Ballroom in New York City in August 2000; it was the final show on the gro...

Incubus - When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 2 $7.00 Defined by their innovative fusion of rap, funk and metal, Incubus have built a legion of fans with their unique sound. This release features behind-the-scenes footage, music videos and live performances, offering a glimpse into the inner workings of the alt-metal pioneers. Includes "Drive," "Stellar," "Take Me to Your Leader" and more. 150 min. Standard; "Mad TV" performance; more....

Dave Matthews Band - The Videos 1994-2001 $4.99 The music of the Dave Matthews Band may speak for itself, but there's a whole lot else to talk about on this 12-song video anthology. Of course, there are the songs themselves and their uniformly eye-catching, effects-laden videos, ranging from 1995's "What Would You Say" (title notwithstanding, there's nothing here from '94) to 2001's "The Space Between." But it's the extras that make this D...

The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray] $22.94 Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies...

Metropolis $1.75 In this anime feature based on cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's "reinvention" of Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic, Tima, an artificial lifeform designed to control the Earth, is accidentally set loose in a giant future city before her programming is finished. Now, Tima's only ally is Kenichi, a young man who must help her as her insidious creator sets out to bring the android back. 109 min. on two discs. Wide...