In spring 2019, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center director Mariah Riggs and composer Randal Pierce launched the Silent Film Series. With screenings twice a year, the series spotlights classic silent films shown with live original scores performed by Pierce and a group of local musicians called the Astral Projector Orchestra. The latest installment features Vienna-born director Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi flick Metropolis. A complete cut was thought to be unavailable until one was discovered in Argentina in 2005 and restored by 2010. Queen City cinephiles see the full version of Lang’s masterpiece about the conflict between the working class and the wealthy in a futuristic city.
