Restored Metropolis on TCM Sunday night 9/18!!!
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Yes, thank you for the heads up! I don't have TCM, but I'll keep an eye out for this version, now that I know it exists.
I have the Blu-ray of the newly restored version (the most complete print available). I definitely recommend watching it either on disc or TCM. For one thing the story actually makes sense now. The missing bits - which were sitting in film canisters in Brazil for something like 70 years before they were discovered during an inventory only a couple years ago - are a bit rough, but they fill in a lot of blanks. Apparently there's only a few very minor clips that remain missing; unless a full print is still awaiting discovery and hasn't turned to powder, this is probably the most complete version we'll ever see. And it's a poster child for those of us who still live in hope that other lost (or incomplete, in the case of Metropolis) films are restored.
Alex
Alex
Ah, great new. I definitely be recording this. 
Isn't this the second time they've shown it? I remember seeing it a few months ago. Still, if you missed it then, it's definitely worth seeing now.
Buried somewhere in the bowels of this forum is a thread I started when Kino was preparing to release the restored edition last November. I immediately ordered it through Amazon and... I haven't watched it yet.
I did try watching it with my gf but as she doesn't have any sci-fi/geek tendencies or an appreciation for older films she grew quite bored quite quickly. I could watch it on my own, and no doubt will eventually. I just prefer watching "event" things like this with someone with common interests, the whole shared experience thing. Hmm... who here is geographically close to me?
I did try watching it with my gf but as she doesn't have any sci-fi/geek tendencies or an appreciation for older films she grew quite bored quite quickly. I could watch it on my own, and no doubt will eventually. I just prefer watching "event" things like this with someone with common interests, the whole shared experience thing. Hmm... who here is geographically close to me?
This was the first blu-ray I ever bought.
I'm always for any restorations & lost footage being found, but some of the very short bits could have been left out in my opinion.
The change from the normal (and amazing) 35mm to the grainy 16mm can be distracting. I wish they had only included the truly "important", longer bits.
I'm always for any restorations & lost footage being found, but some of the very short bits could have been left out in my opinion.
The change from the normal (and amazing) 35mm to the grainy 16mm can be distracting. I wish they had only included the truly "important", longer bits.
The movie was visually impressive, but I'm sorry to say that it was the worst well-regarded film I've ever seen. It was poorly developed, incoherent, anti-progressive and aggressively (and laughably) Christian. It was very visually impressive, though; Fritz Lang had an excellent eye, and the Mechanical Man design is one of the best I've seen.
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I really didn't mind the movie's Christianity so much as I minded that thin advocacy for Christianity was more or less the point of the movie. Christian mythology can be interesting, as can Christian belief, but Metropolis had nothing to say about either. It was all shallow piety and no substance (hence "laughably").
i fell asleep watching it. not cause i thought it was boring or anything, it had just been a long day. some of the cuts made sense to me, but then whole sequences were cut and it was nice to see those back in place. the film looked amazing though. i hadn't seen the film in years and it was a poor quality VHS.
I saw part of it last night, but it was on so late that I missed the rest of it 
. Darn TCM for putting it on so late at night. They need to have an earlier showing of it.
. Darn TCM for putting it on so late at night. They need to have an earlier showing of it.
I recorded it, but I haven't seen it all yet. Things To Come was on after it, but I didn't know that until this morning or I would have recorded that, too.
I picked up the Kino version with the missing footage when it was released a short while back. Yes, it does help the film's narrative. That said I had to watch this in two sittings. It is a very imaginative and creative film, but it is very dated and it starts to put me to sleep no matter how much I try to focus. Same happened when I try to to watch Lang's The Woman In The Moon.
The film's message really isn't very deep, but it is an issue that is still with us. On the flip side one could say that it's interesting to see that things many think of as contemporary problems have actually been with us for quite a long time.
The film's message really isn't very deep, but it is an issue that is still with us. On the flip side one could say that it's interesting to see that things many think of as contemporary problems have actually been with us for quite a long time.
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