13. Metropolis (1927) we all know is the crown jewel of Expressionist Weimar cinema, the mother of all sci-fi movies and one of the, say, top ten most historically significant films of all time. But we're not here to fellate Fritz Lang (today) but to lasciviously paw at Brigitte Helm, she who is immortalized in the dual role that, immoderate though it be, most accurately portrays the vagaries of woman: the saintly Maria and the demoniac False Maria. Of the biography of this German thesp (our final card game character) I know little — aside from the crucial fact that she was no Nazi — and for once I don't care to. There is just no way to reconcile that freaky anarchobot dance with a real person.
Okay, so I listed thirteen movies. That's because none of Lilian Harvey's work has seen a DVD release, so you'll have to get creative to find a copy of Lucky Kids. Happily, Netflix tends to stock the other twelve. Enjoy them with me!
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