The Complete METROPOLIS

[filkertom]

I've been hearing about a newly restored version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and I thought, "Well, it was just restored in 2001. That's what they're talking about."

Nuh-uh.

Now, if only we can get a decent staging of the stage musical....

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[drzarron.livejournal.com]

And its playing in Detroit in July, and in A2 in September

[kshandra]

I saw the 2001 restoration and was left in awe. I'm almost afraid of this one. ;-)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I own the 2001 restoration on DVD, and we also saw it at the Mich with the full organ score. Amazing stuff.

[kshandra]

The combination of the organ score, plus synth for the sound effects, plus one of the producers reading translations of the intertitles was beyond magical.

(And the Castro organ is a treat, anyway. If you view the original size of that photo, you can almost make out the riser it's on; watching it - and the organist - gently float back to orchestra-level as the movie is about to start just makes ya smile.)

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I gotta buy ANOTHER copy of that movie. I think this will be #3, besides the pirated copy I had originally.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

It beats my old 9 reel standard 8mm from Collectors Club.....
That cost me ten quid back in the late 1970's ... and made SO little sense on viewing...

I've been waiting for this for 2 years

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

As soon as they announced the lost footage had been found, I've been on the edge of my seat waiting to see the restoration. They premiered the restored version in Germany a couple of months ago, and in the US a couple of weeks ago.

This is in my must purchase bin.

Stuff like this gives hope that a copy of London After Midnight somehow be found...

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for that video. I didn't know that existed.

My high school staged that musical in the spring of 1996. It was an amazing, wonderful, grueling effort, and remains one of the high points of my creative career: I created the visual effects for Futura's transformation and played brass in the pit orchestra.

I'd love to see a pro production of it, preferably in North America.

Copyright gripe

[pseud0sapien.livejournal.com]

Why do we even NEED to pirate this stuff? It was made in 1927! None of the artists could be alive. Even their kids kids will have kids by now. Does this sort of term really motivate content creators? Do they think "well, I wasn't going to make that movie, but the profit some corporation will make in 70 freakin years makes it all worth while"? Yea yea, I know about Steamboat Willy, but this is just nuts. /gripe

Cool find, Tom! I will have to see this.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me...I'll be over here squeeing. I grew up with Morodor's version of Metropolis as one of my favorite movies (no hating, now, I loved that frickin' soundtrack!), so I am absolutely thrilled about this restoration with the new footage. My biggest gripe is there's only one, count 'em, one showing withing 10hrs driving distance of me. *headdesk*

But damn straight I'm making that one showing!

[mouser.livejournal.com]

SQUEEE!!!!!

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

If it really is complete now, maybe Giorgio Moroder could get back into the studio and score for the footage that was still lost when he scored it in the 1980s. ;)