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Quatermass
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: Metropolis- Recovered? |
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Only recently, apparently a full reel of the original Metropolis was recovered from Brazil. If you know anything about this 1926 film by Fritz Lang, then you would know that a good chunk of it is lost. It was thought that this was gone forever, but now, apparently an original has turned up.
http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/bg-metropolis?1
and an English version...
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fonline%2F2008%2F27%2Fbg-metropolis%3F1&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(Since this was translated through Google, 'the Narrow' actually means 'Slim', the original English version of that character's name.)
And a quote from a German newspaper, in English:
| Quote: | 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.
Paula Félix-Didier, head of film museum Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, discovered an uncut version of the 1927 science fiction film when she looked into reports that a tape in the archive was unusually long. She travelled to Berlin with a copy of the film and met with experts who say they are certain it is the missing original-length version of Lang's masterpiece that reveals key plot scenes and an expansion of minor roles, Die Zeit said ahead of the publication of its Thursday edition.
"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.
According to Die Zeit's reconstruction of events, Buenos Aires film distributor Adolfo Z. Wilson brought a copy of the original version to Argentina in 1928. Film critic Peña Rodríguez later attained the film, which he sold in the 1960's to Argentina's national art fund. In 1992 copy then went to the Museo del Cine - where discoverer Félix-Didier took leadership this January. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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so why the question?
If it's been recovered, you needn't ask "Recovered?"
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I can hardly wait!!
I emailed Kino, and they said it'd be out 2009 on DVD and Bluray!
Sweet movie
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pakled
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| another place like this was some place in Alaska, that was literally 'at the end of the world'. Movies would show up after having been everywhere else, then dumped in the local dump. A lot of it was pretty well preserved. Mostly old silent, nitrate-based films. |
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MADDuck
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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or like The Passion Of Joan Of Arc that was found in a Swedish mental hospital!
Even in this day and age, NOTHING is impossible.
I have the previous KINO version on DVD and they considered the restoration a project of national pride. So it'll be real cool to hear their take on this.
They had to cull from many editions for the restored autherized version, kind of like how Lucas did for the SW restoration
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| How improbable. Wake me when they find the rest of The Wicker Man under Stone Henge. |
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Quatermass
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| MADDuck wrote: | or like The Passion Of Joan Of Arc that was found in a Swedish mental hospital!
Even in this day and age, NOTHING is impossible.
I have the previous KINO version on DVD and they considered the restoration a project of national pride. So it'll be real cool to hear their take on this.
They had to cull from many editions for the restored autherized version, kind of like how Lucas did for the SW restoration |
It strikes a chord with me because what happened to the Metropolis footage was not unlike that which happened to many episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960's.
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