Big news, folks - via GreenCine Daily - that I’m too excited about not to share. An *original* version of Fritz Lang’s 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis has been discovered in a Buenos Aires film archive, including scenes long considered to be lost forever. The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation will be working with the Buenos Aires archive to restore the rediscovered scenes and make them available to the public. I can’t wait.
David W. Hudson provides the story and updates here.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Metropolis Now!
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wow! that's like a crazy dream come true for film geeks all over the world, right next to discovering an existing copy of London After Midnight, or a whole cut of AMbersons.
Oh wow, what amazing news! A few years ago, I saw a big-screen screening of Metropolis, and it was so much better than on a little TV screen. But I'd gladly pay to see the recovered footage in any format.
Yes, very good news indeed!Thanks for the heads-up! Oh, and don't get me started on London After Midnight! Is there even a script of it around? I'd love to see just an animated facsimile of it or something, much like the Doctor Who geeks did with all the missing episodes...
Moggy -
There is a facsimile of LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT reconstructed entirely from still photographs and the continuity script. It's available as part of the TCM Archive's LON CHANEY CONNECTION which can be purchased through Amazon and the other usual sources.
I mean LON CHANEY COLLECTION.
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