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Drop What You’re Doing: The Complete Metropolis Trailer is Here

Michael Cook — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:18:59 +0000

So… There’s not much more that needs to be said.

Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece is one of the best movies you’ve (probably) never seen, and with the release of the remastered, repaired, and restored Blu-Ray and DVD later this year, it’s been getting quite the red-carpet treatment. The revitalized edition is seeing numerous showings, which can be checked out on the official website. The restoration, with 27 minutes not seen since shown in Berlin, adds and restores a lot of subplot removed from the previous version.

Source: Apple, FirstShowing

Metropolis making its debut at the Berlin Film Festival

Daniel Herrera — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:56:23 +0000

For years many have been dying to see director Fritz Lang’s definitive version of his masterpiece “Metropolis”. Now, after 80 years of waiting, the full length film will be making its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010. This will mark the first complete cut screening of the film since its 1927 showing in which more than 30 minutes of the film were removed by the UFA studio during its re-release.

It has been almost a full year since the excised 30 minutes of footage were found early last year at a museum in Argentina. It is almost completely restored just to be spliced back with the original printing for its long awaited debut on February 10th.

Source: Variety

Metropolis finally closer to it’s restoration

Daniel Herrera — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:36:29 +0000

It was around the fall of last year when movie lovers world wide were stunned to find out that Fritz Lang‘s 1927 classic Metropolis had in fact been found. It’s been known for some time that the film we all love and have seen has not been the way the director intended. The film has a significant amount of footage that has been left out. However, August of last year it was found in a museum in Argentina with the film’s long lost 26 minutes of footage.

Alas, not much news surfaced as to whether the restoration process has begun or as to the status of the film itself. Today we learn though in almost a years time since the news was released we now know that the film has just now been received by the F. W. Murnau Foundation who will be restoring the footage and piecing the film to its intended piece.

“When you follow the whole story from August 2008 until today, we’re overjoyed to have it in our hands. There were a couple of occasions when we thought we were going get it, but we didn’t. So it’s great it’s here, and we can finally start the restoration work, “

“The work consists of two parts. On the one hand, there’s the technical aspect: the digital restoration. And on the other, there’s the reconstruction. That’s what we’re doing here: reconstructing the original version,”says Helmut Possmann, Head of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation.

Now that we know the process is going to be longer than initial reports reported that a blu ray version of the now complete work would be released sometime this year is not in fact true it is good to know that for whatever reason the film is now in the hands of those in charge of finally commencing restoration.

The good news though is that the foundation now is hoping to have the film ready by January 2010 for its premiere before the Berlin Film Festival.

Source: EuroNews