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The Newly Restored Version Of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS Streams Friday!? Can You Help With Details??
Merrick here...
A few years ago we learned that a significant portion of long missing footage belonging to Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS had been located & that efforts to reassemble the film were underway (details HERE and HERE).
Seems the restored METROPOLIS is now ready to debut. Roger Ebert's awesome Twitter feed (HERE) indicates that said premiere will stream Friday at THIS URL.
I can't speak German, so I put the link Roger supplied through Google translator - and found little reference to a streaming event. Although, the there are one or two mentions of...something...happening:
"PUBLIC VIEWING: The world premiere of the reconstructed "Metropolis" version in Friedrichstadtpalast and publicly broadcast will be live at the Brandenburg Gate. On 12 February from 20:15"
You can read the entire Google translation HERE.
If anyone out there can offer more exacting details of the "broadcast"/streaming event,
PLEASE DROP ME AN E-MAIL as I'd love to update this article with more pointed information.
Also, if any AICN readers will be attending this premiere, we'd love for you to share your in-depth perspectives of what you saw and how you feel. Be sure to drop us a line?
Tremendously excited to look upon a restored version of this film. METROPOLIS inspired me, and influenced me, in more ways than I can convey. This will be like seeing it new for the first time...and I'm stoked as hell.
More details a more come in...
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to seeing this
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... Torn between watching this baby stream on a computer screen this Friday (if true), or waiting a few months before the restored version gets a proper theatrical release, a la the 2000 restoration. If anyone can confirm that this new restoration will be released in theaters, I just might wait a few more months for that.
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METROPOLIS is such a trippy film, glad it's now (more) complete again. Just keep hoping they unearth the missing scenes for LOST HORIZON next, it's a trajedy how much of that awesome film is lost to the ravages of time.
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As in I can watch the premier of the actual, newly restored version of Metropolis for free on my computer?
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but the whole article tells of a screening at the Berlinale and a live stream to the public viewing at the brandenburg Gate. No mention of an online stream here.. It will also be shown on TV (Arte in Germany and France) at the same time with a documentary following the film.
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I heard there was an early cut that featured an alien life form that has a hankering for cats.
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There's nothing about an online stream on either of those two websites. On February 12, People will be able to see the restored film in three venues: <br> 1. the festival itself, indoors; <br> 2. in Berlin, projected on a giant screen, open-air; <br> 3. on TV, anywhere, as long as your cable, satellite or broadcast provider can receive "arte" channel. <br><br> I'm guessing recordings from venue 3 are going to wind up online fairly soon after the event. They probably won't be in HD, though, you'll have to wait for the Blu-ray for that.
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i've been excited about this ever since i heard about the found footage. glad they took their time with it, and hopefully got it right.
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...but it will be broadcasted on ARTE in Germany and France.<br> Believe it or not, but I originally wanted to drop the staff an e-mail about this, but I thought even though it's Metropolis, they don't care for a european TV broadcast.
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A TV channel about art sounds boring, but they know that art can be many things and so they also lots of interesting documentaries and also TV series like "The Avengers" (I heard they will also show "Breaking Bad" soon) or movies like "Dead & Buried", "Street Trash" and several Russ Meyer movies! Seriously, ARTE rules!
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i'll wait for the blu-ray
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Radio GA GA!!!!
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Feb. 8, 2010, 3:11 p.m. CST
This will be aewsome on Blu-Ray someday... soon I hope.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
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and not the film itself.
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in our library. Would that be a help?
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...with Nicolas Cage and a CGI cloud
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Can't wait.
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Actually it's not 'the Queen version' (you're getting confused with the Radio GaGa music video), but the Giorgio Moroder scored version does have a Freddie Mercury track on it 'Love Kills'. <p> And you know what... I've seen that and the subtitled original and the version set to modern music is better imho. It cuts to the essence of what METROPOLIS is - the bosses and the workers - 'without the heart the hand there can be no understanding between the hand and mind', and the thematic message comes through in a very cool way.
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Metropolis is boss
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Just because it's old and German, doesn't mean it's good.
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but love the idea of a long, lost part of it recently found, and restored. Now it only remains to see if it adds anything significant to the versions out there.
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Are you saying that things old and German is usually a good, but in the case of Metropolis, that is not so?
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Weren't people syncing up "broken" to this ala WOOZ PF?
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for the insane grammar in that question, but you know what I meant right?
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things are done with spotlights and cardboard cutouts that won't be topped until 2000's CGI. In it's day, it *was* Star Wars. You couldn't have Coruscant--or Trantor, for that matter--without Metropolis. And the original graphic novel is a gem. I know; I've got one.
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Isn't that how this should be viewed?
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Greedo shoots first. FTW?
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According to Bill Hunt, this version WILL be released theatrically in the US (starting in April), and Kino sez the DVD and Blu-Ray releases are on track for later this year. <P> Can't wait!
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Totally agree. The 1980s Moroder version was a travesty/abomination ... It was ALSO gorgeous, thrilling and deeply moving in a kitschy post-mod way. I have it on VHS but want it on DVD ASAP. Purists be damned. The bloated KINO cut was a sauerkraut teutonic snore.
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No, I'm saying it's over indulgent, it's acclaimed only because it's an old european film in a time and age where narrative science fiction was not usual, specially on the moving pictures. Also, making it an european film adds to the whole thing. To me, a mild curiosity, but not something I enjoyed watching. I'll stick with Harold Lloyd's Safety Last, thank you very much. And wake me up when they find Kubrick's 2001 original premiere cut and decide to release THAT.
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Feb. 8, 2010, 6:10 p.m. CST
Here here to Zinc_Chameleon. Metropolis precursor to much in fi
by planetran_fan
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Feb. 8, 2010, 6:10 p.m. CST
Here's to Zinc_Chameleon. Metropolis precursor to much in film!
by planetran_fan
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You can watch arte via stream at zattoo - but I don't know if it works form the US (if not, then it's the revenge for all the hulu stuff we Europeans cannot watch :)
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I wish I lived in Europe to experience this.
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Whoaa. I love what they're doing with this... public viewing? Fantastic. Usually and unfortunately film and cinema doesn't get the celebration-treatment in Germany, so this seems like a nice change of pace. I had no idea they were gonna show it on arte (a damn fine franch-german-lovechild channel), too. When I tried to get some tickets for one of the two (Berlin & Frankfurt) screenings it was already sold out. Occasionally arte streams some movies/series on their website...nothing on their page hints of that so far, though. @eyelow...I guess. I'm all for global tv, though. :)
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Umm ... not to knock you, but entirely dismissing Lang's "Metropolis", also twice making some weird "European" diss pegs you in my mind as some sort of 12-year-old childish retard. I'm glad you are a "2001" fan -- me too. But if you don't appreciate how much sci-fi cinema owes to Lang (EVERYTHING!!!) I must peg you as a Down's Tard, or 6 yrs old, or something.
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Metropolis is pretty awesome.... But I think M is better...
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M yes, great.
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I will be at the Frankfurt premier which is happening at the same time as the Berlin one. It will be at the Old Opera House with a live orchestra doing all of the music. I have been looking forward to this for months now.
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You are a very, very lucky guy. I once saw a restoration print of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights in London with a full orchestra and it remains to this day the greatest cinema experience I've ever had. It was beautiful, and I imagine this screening will be amazing. The orchestra just adds something special that most movie goers have never experienced. <br> <br> I've been waiting for this news about Metropolis to come since hearing this found footage was discovered. What a great experience you will have.
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i'll wait for the 3D remake from michael bay.
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Next time maybe you'll listen.
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Sigh *shakes head in shame*.
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so it must suck
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Because the chain theatre here in Saskatoon, SK, Canada just played the restored version, complete with city orchestra.
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I was wondering off and on when this was finally going to come out after I read about the lost footage being found. Looks like I will have to wait a little more for it to come over here to the States, but good to hear the restoration is finished.
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and sacrilege or not, it was quite a step more entertaining and memorable than the original. Looking forward to this though.
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Arte will show the film on friday, the 12th of feb on there regular tv. BUT there is also "arte HD" via satelite, and arte will show the movie in HD as well via "arte HD" at the same time. More info in english about the whole project here : http://www.metropolis2710.de
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and other places which aren't France and Germany
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still weirdly accesable today. much more entertaining than so called classics like 2001. (i still think you have transformers 1&2 on your dvd shelf though)
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to remaster a german movie.<p> well, theres nothing like 2 world wars and a holocaust to put such projects on the backburner!
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technology can restore old movies and make them look as good as new? Can't wait for this on Blu Ray.
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Giorgio Moroder and Freddie Mercury?! I think it did at one point have an intended score, and I can guaran-damn-tee you it was not 80's shit. That's not the point, however. Fuck the soundtrack, Metropolis is about the extreme technological leap forward in cinema, and how it was almost forgotten. I couldn't care less about whoever is scoring it, just imagine the myriad different interpretations filmgoers heard back then from whoever was playing the music there at the time. Focus on the great uncovered footage.
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problem with the moroder version is also its butchered version of the original release. so not only youre listening to some amazing crappy 80's disco, you also get half the movie.
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You must remember to appreciate it as art. <BR><BR>When the medium was new, anything looked good. As soon as someone with some imagination got behind the camera, it was herald as genius. <BR><BR> Most anything before the the mid 1930's is massively boring if you are expecting it to have a compelling story.
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Feb. 9, 2010, 8:16 a.m. CST
news flash... old films are full of transvestites
by Anything But Tangerines
all a them faggity ass actas always was all dressed up like faggits and shit an they was always wearin makeup and shit like mascara o wutteva. That shit was naastay nomesayin. an the fuckin music? shiit. i aint herd some shit like that since my grammas grammas gramma was a baby nomesayin. daaam they was some bad fuckin movies back in da day nigga. fo reel
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The North American premiere will be at the Turner Classic Movies film festival April 22-25 in Hollywood. <P> @tangcameo: What you saw wasn't the version with the brand-new footage; it was the 2002 restoration.
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There's gonna be a premiere of the restored movie ib Berlin. Restored film and restored soundtrack with a full orchestra. The website is a TV-channel called ARTE, a german/french art-thingy. They will broadcast live from the premiere, no internet livestream, certaily not of film.
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it's all part of the Berlin Filmfestival.
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it's all part of the Berlin Filmfestival.
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I thought the missing footage was available only as a low quality 16mm print. Did they find a 35mm version somewhere to create this newly restored version? Because that print material, even after digital cleanup, still looked like crap.
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this isn't fucking twitter. What the hell is up with "@" everywhere all of a sudden?
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If you read the links in the article above, a while back they found a 35mm print of the original uncut movie in a museum in Argentina.
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@detinue: the missing segments are from a 16mm copy http://www.metropolis2710.de/en/restoration.html arte will also broadcast in hd http://bit.ly/9NjS3e
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This is the first time i ever been disapointed with a post from you. You dislike Metropolis because it's "old" and "european"? I'm sorry, my brazilian friend, but that makes no sense whatsoever. A movie is either good or bad. Metropolis has flaws, yes, which i'm well aware of, but they are nothing to do with it being old or european, whatever that means.
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As others have pointed out, detinue, the missing footage is from a 16mm source. <P> We shall have to wait and see just how well they were able to clean it up.
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Feb. 9, 2010, 3:11 p.m. CST
MurderMostFowl must have bought copies of transforners 1 and 2
by peschi
"Most anything before the the mid 1930's is massively boring if you are expecting it to have a compelling story." did you actually have seen Metropolis? Its one of the best scifi movies ever made, not because its a "art" movie, but because the story is compelling en encompasses many genres. It should appeal to you, it also has explosions in it.
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"Most anything before the the mid 1930's is massively boring if you are expecting it to have a compelling story." <P> That could be the single dumbest thing I've ever read in a talkback. Which is saying something. <P> Hey MurderMostFowl, how do you define "compelling story?" I ask because I'm looking at films like Battleship Potemkin, All Quiet on the Western Front, Dracula, Little Caesar, Public Enemy -- PUBLIC FUCKING ENEMY -- and on and on and wondering just what the hell you're thinking.
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Just forget it, freind. You can't reason with a reasoning like that. I thank my lucky stars that i'm capable of appreciating the "old, boring" stuff.
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Well at least over here. :-D<p>I'm really looking forward to this event! Can't wait to see METROPOLIS in its restored glory!
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The problem is that the restored 35mm segments (most of the movie) looked sensational, whereas the 16mm segments were from not only a 16mm print, but a bad 16mm print with very low resolution, so there's no amount of cleanup that can make it look decent. When play against each other the difference in quality is not only very obvious but jarring. Still, amazing to see the extra stuff (Maria being based on Fredersen's first wife, which Rotwang also loved). C'mon people, someone in New Joysee must have a 35mm print of this in their basement!! and be on the lookout for the complete version of GREED while you're at it!!
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While modern science fiction movies owe a lot to METROPOLIS, one mustn't forget that before the excellent METROPOLIS, there was Melies' TRIP TO THE MOON which kicked off the idea of cinematic SF in 1902.
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Normally, I strongly dislike 'colourized' movies, but I loved the Moroder version of METROPOLIS because the colour he added wasn't to 'colourize' it so much as to add to the atmosphere of a given scene. For me, it worked well, giving many scenes (such as the foot race in the elite's stadium) a haunting, other worldly look and feel. Too, METROPOLIS makes me wish time travel were possible, because I'd love to bring forward whomever was responsible for the METROPOLIS set designs. If someone were to ever tackle bringing the LENSMAN series of novels to the big screen, well, Joh Fredersen's office is how I'd imagine their tech looking like. Lastly, some complain about how the Moroder version was incomplete. Of course. He admits it. But it was the best he could do with recently discovered fragments, along with script and other sources.
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