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'Metropolis' found!

Jul 3, 2008, 04:22 PM | by Gary Susman

Categories: Dig it Out!, Film, Sci-Fi

Metropolis_l_2 Okay, so you've seen every director's cut of Blade Runner, but how about Metropolis, the film Blade Runner wishes it was? For the last 80 years, Metropolis has been available only in truncated versions, with as much as a fourth of Fritz Lang's original cut thought lost. Now, however, most of what was trimmed from the 1927 silent sci-fi epic has been found and is about to be restored, so we'll be able to see the closest version possible to Lang's original vision. I'll let GreenCine Daily tell you the whole story, but suffice it to say that this is huge, one of the greatest finds in film history (the only comparable thing might be if someone were to find the missing hours of Erich von Stroheim's Greed or the hour lopped off of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons). I'm thrilled, and I can't wait to see the restored version. (Of course, even the extant version is still a masterpiece that you must see at least once in your lifetime, if only to recognize how much every sci-fi and Tim Burton film you love has been influenced by it.)


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tar Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:53 PM EST

Now if only someone would find the Lost Spider Pit Sequence from the original King Kong, we'd be set.

Dinosaur Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:31 PM EST

If only they'd find "London After Midnight". Sigh.

Winona Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 08:37 AM EST

How does one say "DROOL" in German?

Jen Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 06:39 PM EST

I've seen both "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," and "Metropolis," and they both will mess with your mind, wonderfully. Of the two, I've got to lean towards "Metropolis," though, because that one scene underground where the blonde-girl-prophet was being menaced, and the lights-and-shadows were shooting all round Just Freaked Me the Heck Out. "*Amazing** film!

Thank you... Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM EST

I just wanted to thank you Gary for classing up the joint with this post. Yay for classic movies! Yay for treating PopWatch readers like we actually have brains (cause we do) and care about the good stuff as well as Criminal MInds and Grey's Anatomy. This is why I used to subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. Keep it up!

Ohsohappydaddy Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 09:41 AM EST

This is AMAZING news!!!! I own about 4 different versions of it including the best and most accurate version which is the colorized and one with the musical score by Phil Oakey. If you can find it I would recommend buying it. The colorization and the modern score do not detract or destroy the movie, they actually enhance it.

Maddi Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:27 PM EST

How does this have six comments and the "Friends" movie have at least ten times that? My faith in humanity has fallen at least ten points. Fantastic news.

elly Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM EST

i wonder how many people who don't know the film will actually go out and watch it because of this post...my husband found the most recent dvd release of it in the used bin at blockbuster for a whopping $2.99. yes, the single most important (i call it that because of it's earliness, hence what it spawned) sci-fi film of all time is only worth $2.99....and it was reduced to $2.99 because the general populace apparently thought $4.99 was too steep. yowza.

SamPoP Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:42 AM EST

I toughtz this wus called "Persepolis" :-0!!!

Mar Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 01:16 AM EST

I just had a film-nerdgasm.

kim in kentucky Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 09:48 PM EST

With so much garbage out there, to be able to view a true masterpiece in all (or most of) its glory - well, I am at a loss for the best word to describe

Victoria Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 08:22 PM EST

Oh thank you for doing a post on this. I had planned to see this movie a loooong time ago but kept on forgetting and I eventually never saw it. You've reminded me and now I'm gonna go rent it.
Ahh i'll just buy it. :)

Steve Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 04:20 PM EST

This is amazing news!

Seamus Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 04:00 PM EST

Metropolis was great, but I still preferred the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. The Weimar Period was a wonderful time in cinematic history.


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