A special screening of a restored, near-complete black and white cut of Fritz Lang's epic nightmare vision of the future. The high point of pre-war silent German Expressionist cinema, Metropolis was Lang's masterpiece, but as it was deemed too long for the attention span of the average audience was seldom shown in its entirety. No complete print exists now, but this is a restored version. Because Metropolis was black and white and silent, some horrible things have been done to it by people foolish enough to imagine that Lang would have used colour and rock music had those resources been available to him.

Like any artist, he expressed his creativity within the technical constraints of the period in which he worked, and those constraints are a fundamental element of the discipline of his art. Colourising Metropolis makes no more sense than strapping a jet engine to a biplane. The film was, however, meant to have live musical accompaniment, and here it has a critically acclaimed score by Martin Matalon.

This is a great way to view one of cinema's truly great works. You would be insane to miss this opportunity.

Vertigo, today, 12.01pm, Hong Kong Arts Centre Lim Por Yen Film Theatre, $50, students $30, Urbtix.

I was wondering whether the eccentric screening time of 12.01pm for this had something to do with fung shui, or was perhaps an allusion to an Alfred Hitchcock joke I had forgotten, so I rang the Arts Centre to check. It is of course neither. Their computer refuses to print 12.00 on tickets, and a 60-second delay is the result. It is just as well they are not screening High Noon. Vertigo, made in 1958 with Hitchcock's favourite combination of James Stewart and that year's glamorous blonde - Kim Novak in this instance - this is one of Hitchcock's finest psychological suspense dramas. Well worth deferring Sunday lunch for.

MUSIC Chaurasia and Hussain, tonight and Monday, 8pm, City Hall Concert Hall, $280, $200, students $100, $65, Urbtix.

Virtuosi on the north Indian bamboo flute and the tabla, respectively, Chaurasia and Hussain have won the acclaim of both Western classical musicians and rock and jazz players. Their collaborators have included guitarist John McLaughlin, Norway's great saxophonist Jan Garbarek and Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. These performances however feature their own distinctively Indian music, supported by four other musicians. World music enthusiasts will certainly want to drop in and find out what it is all about.

THEATRE The Umbilical Brothers, today to Friday, 8pm, Hong Kong Arts Centre Shouson Theatre, $200, $160, $120 Urbtix.

'Physical comedy' from an Australian duo who made their reputation at the 1994 Edinburgh Festival. David Collins and Shane Dundas perform a complicated routine of vocal and physical acrobatics, and in the process tell a story called Heaven By Storm, which they describe as a 'loosely related series of non-stop action adventures full of allusions based on your favourite cartoons and movies'. Obviously this is a show to take children to, but adults will enjoy it too.

Kissing The Goldfish, Thursday to Saturday, 8.30pm to 10pm, Fringe Club La Cremeria Theatre, $120, students senior citizens and the disabled 100, members $95.

Following a hectic month in January with the Fringe Festival, it is nice to see the Fringe Club has not decided to roll over and play dead during the Arts Festival proper. Kissing The Goldfish is a music revue/cabaret from a group already successful in London and Edinburgh and on its way to Australia for the Adelaide Festival. The group takes a few liberties in presenting songs from the likes of Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim as well as offering original material. Recommended for those over 16 only.