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[Movie on] Complete, uncut copy of Metropolis found in Argentina!
Lost scenes from German-Austrian director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film "Metropolis" have been discovered in Argentina, German weekly newspaper Die Zeit reported on Wednesday.
"The film's original rhythm will be re-established," Martin Koerber, the man responsible for the current restoration of the film, told the paper.
Head of Berlin film museum Deutsche Kinemathek told the paper it was a "sensational discovery."
In 1927, Fritz Lang presented the film in Berlin after producing it in the city's Babelsberg Studios. At that time it was the most expensive film ever produced in Germany, but it was not well received by its German audience. A radically shorter version was subsequently edited in the US, after which historians believed the original version to have been lost.
I have never seen this but have always been intrigued by it.
Is it any good?
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edited July 2008
It's very good, especially if you can find one of the many cool scores that have been written for it (though of course, they won't work with this new version).
Metropolis fell into the public domain for awhile, but its copyright was restored.
I didn't know they could do that.
Advances in prosthetics and skin transplants in the last few years have been phenomenal. You'd be amazed at what they can restore now.
In all seriousness, it was the 1998 Copyright Extension Act that did it, AKA the "Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act," AKA the "Mickey Mouse Hasn't Printed Enough Money For Disney Over the Last 70 Years We Need to Milk it For All It's Worth Copyright Extension Act."
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Metropolis fell into the public domain for awhile, but its copyright was restored.
I didn't know they could do that.
Advances in prosthetics and skin transplants in the last few years have been phenomenal. You'd be amazed at what they can restore now.
In all seriousness, it was the 1998 Copyright Extension Act that did it, AKA the "Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act," AKA the "Mickey Mouse Hasn't Printed Enough Money For Disney Over the Last 70 Years We Need to Milk it For All It's Worth Copyright Extension Act."
Sonny Bono (R-Disney) and his wife Mary (R-Disney) wanted copyright to last forever, until they were told that that was unconstitutional, when they said it should last "forever minus one day".
First a copy of The Passion of Joan of Arc in a closet, now this. Wery interesting, indeed.
This version runs something like 210+ minutes as I understand. I forget which version I saw, the slightly-less-than 2 hours version or the slightly-less-than 2 1/2 hour version. Either way, three and a half hours. I'm damn curious to see how Lang was able to keep the pacing up and what other madcap setpieces he designed.
A fun wiki fact (because wiki facts are fun): "It was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million USD in 2005) to make."
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Also, it looks like someone is going to try and remake the film sometime in the next few years. I weep for their incompetence.
Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited July 2008
Wonderful stuff. Reading the notes on my Kino copy was depressing, and the apparent amount of lost footage from the reconstructed version was staggering.
There were two large cut areas: The background on the villain's wife that supposedly makes him much more understandable and the guy who takes on the rich character's life has a major subplot. Also virtually all of the footage from the "red light" district.
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Now we can argue if it's too long
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Now if someone could find a copy of London After Midnight in their attic I'd be all set.
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Gawd so true.
I'm sure the copyright issues have been worked out though, since the existing impartial cut has seen a DVD release.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Is it any good?
Metropolis fell into the public domain for awhile, but its copyright was restored.
I didn't know they could do that.
Advances in prosthetics and skin transplants in the last few years have been phenomenal. You'd be amazed at what they can restore now.
In all seriousness, it was the 1998 Copyright Extension Act that did it, AKA the "Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act," AKA the "Mickey Mouse Hasn't Printed Enough Money For Disney Over the Last 70 Years We Need to Milk it For All It's Worth Copyright Extension Act."
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Sonny Bono (R-Disney) and his wife Mary (R-Disney) wanted copyright to last forever, until they were told that that was unconstitutional, when they said it should last "forever minus one day".
bastards.
This version runs something like 210+ minutes as I understand. I forget which version I saw, the slightly-less-than 2 hours version or the slightly-less-than 2 1/2 hour version. Either way, three and a half hours. I'm damn curious to see how Lang was able to keep the pacing up and what other madcap setpieces he designed.
A fun wiki fact (because wiki facts are fun): "It was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million USD in 2005) to make."
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Also, it looks like someone is going to try and remake the film sometime in the next few years. I weep for their incompetence.
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