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IRON MAN 2, TOY STORY 3, A-TEAM, ECLIPSE, LAST AIRBENDER... Bah! Full Restored METROPOLIS in theaters this Summer!!!
Hey folks, Harry here with the most anticipated theatrical release of Summer 2010. This isn't meant to be an insult to the incoming collection of studio spectacles... But to see the complete METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang? Hell, I spent several hours today staring at the streaming METROPOLIS premiere that Merrick embeded on here earlier yesterday. Sure, I was aggravated by not having a full screen 1080p downloadable... but I'm also realistic. This restoration represents decades of hopes and dreams of film geeks for the better part of the last century til now.
Kino has said that there will be a Summer theatrical premiere around the world with a DVD/BLU RAY Release to follow this Fall/X-Mas season. That's right, this Christmas we get this baby on Blu - and at home!!! This is spectacular news. We'll keep you up to date with the details as they emerge further.
And here's our wonderful spy from Berlin with the breakdown of this restored METROPOLIS:
Hello Harry and company,
I've written up a few things concerning the new Metropolis that screened/ aired last night.
If you use this, call me “the Hel with it”
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“Wo ist der, dessen Kleider Sie tragen?” (Where's the man whose clothes you're wearing?)
I've seen Metropolis in a new light!
So, Metropolis has screened in HD, in full, on my television set tonight and I just wanted to give my two cents on what turned out to be a pretty moving evening. I really hope you guys get to see it ASAP in the States because it's the most satisfying version of this classic to date. Real sorry you had to watch dancing, freezing Germans instead (although that can make for a good show).
Long story short:
Metropolis finally feels completed, not under (re)construction. If you want to know what's new in this version, skip to WHAT'S NEW because I want to put the version in context first. The guys at Murnau and Deutsche Cinematek deserve their dues and our gratitude. And if you want SPOILERS, they're at the very end.
After the film, there was a documentary chronicling the different restorations over the years of this 1927 film that Paramount had butchered after the German release bombed with audiences (apparently, the film made back 2% of its cost on first release). So, basically, film historians have been trying to restore it to its initial length and glory since before the Second World War, except for Georgio Moroder who turned it into something as personal as it was questionable.
Through finds, from Russian prints to Australian ones, from set photographs in Paris to the original, unabridged dialogues written for German film censors' approval (apparently, only the English translation had survived, so it had to be retranslated into German), they pieced the puzzle but gaping holes subsisted. Having worked in film restoration on works that dated from the early thirties, I can tell you that restoration is a costly business which was more or less irreversible before the digital nineties (and I can tell you nitrate film cuts hurt like paper cuts if the paper had acid blood). But you find new film elements throughout the years and that's what happened in this instance. The criticized restored Vertigo color scheme was based on a vintage bucket of paint that GM found for one of the cars used in the movie, for example.
Anyway, in 2008, a print of Metropolis was found in Buenos Aires. What was it? A 16mm negative made in the seventies from a 35mm first-generation positive. The Argentinian archives didn't want nitrate prints anymore in the 70s because of their Inglorious Basterdness, so they transferred their films on 16mm because they couldn't afford 35mm. Unfortunately, the print was already almost fifty years old and apparently, wasn't cleaned up before transfer. So all the flaws of that positive have been printed into the negative: they're part of the image. Which is problematic, to say the least.
At times, it looked as though the film was being projected on a piece of wood, with thin vertical veins all over. The choice not to over-digitalize was consciously made by the restorers but perhaps future algorithms may be able to address the issue in coming years. Point is: Metropolis is complete. This print was made when the Argentinian distributor visited Germany and it hadn't been trimmed by Paramount yet for the US market. It wasn't the premiere cut, which apparently ran 210 minutes (according to IMDB), but my HDD says it's 146 minutes long, not 150. I have no idea what the frame-rate was, sorry. Anyway, that's still a good extra 20 minutes from the last restoration. Personally, I don't believe there ever was a premiere cut that was an hour longer than this one but that's just me.
WHAT'S NEW:
I'm not giving a synopsis, you already know the film if you're reading this and I won't spoil the additions until the SPOILER paragraph at the end. If you haven't seen it, know that Blade Runner, Star Wars, Back to the Future and just about any SF film pays homage to Metropolis graphically. Thematically, it's more like a cross between The Time Machine, Frankenstein and Battleship Potemkine while staying its own pioneering thing. It makes Griffith and Gance films look small and every shot looks like it cost a fortune and it did.
I'm not sure what restoration of the film I saw last time and I had never seen it in HD but the image of the non-Argentinian footage was quite phenomenal for a film that's 83 years old. A couple of flickers, a couple of soft spots here and there, but an overall uniformity that's really impressive and defined. It's Blu-Ray material as it was broadcast in 1080p (or 1080i... not sure). Anyway, non-Argentinian footage is top notch and the film's elaborate lightings come through beautifully and subtly.
Now for the Argentinian footage. We have lots of minor modifications: extra shots, extended scenes and whole sequences with mostly secondary characters. Secondary but key to plot advancement and characters' relationships, notably between Joh Fredersen and Rotwang, the mad scientist. You find out why the latter hates the former so much. More in SPOILER section.
Again, the Argentinian print looks like a movie projected on wood, which is odd, but better than nothing. I remember the first time I saw this as a kid and how frustrated I was by the butchered ending. I really felt cheated that this film's story wasn't complete (I was nine), like it was a cop-out. Now Metropolis is complete, with additions that give it a rationale and an overall rhythm that's much nicer in the second half.
The live score was really neat. Apparently, they also used the complete manuscripts of the score to find the tempo Lang had originally intended. Anyway, the score gave a greater coherence to the varying image qualities from the two different sources. Very dramatic music for the most part, borrowing cues from Dies Iera and La Marseillaise (for the workers' revolt, naturally).
I wasn't a huge Metropolis fan but an admirer. I didn't love it the way I loved Sunrise, City Lights or Nosferatu but close. That might have changed. In this complete form and in this stellar shape (overall), Metropolis is a true wonder to behold, especially for any Science-Fiction or Art Deco fans. And from now on, no one will have to envision scenes from a card: Lang's director's cut is here.
For the record, Lang wasn't sure about the ending's potency and blamed his wife for its naivety. Until everyone told him how great it was in the sixties.
Now someone find the Magnificent Ambersons test screening cut already!
...and the fabled six-hour edit of Thin Red Line.
Apologies on the length of this write-up, I'm exhausted and enthusiastic.
Faithfully submitted,
The Hel with it
SPOILERS
11811 is Georgy's worker number, three numbers in common with THX1138, coincidence?
Three brand new sequences as far as I can tell, many extensions and some alternate shots (Lang filmed each shot thrice and edited from there).
Four extended characters: three men and a ghost.
Josaphat and his evolution from yes-man to revolutionary after he's fired by Joh Fredersen and has to go below.
Georgy, the guy who replaces Freder as a rich kid and who choses to do rich kid's stuff.
The Tall Guy that Joh Fredersen sends to find his son in the underground city. He trails Georgy, finds Josaphat and is pretty scary even though he looks like a desperado in drag on some shots (too much make-up). This is the most significant addition, like Bond's Jaws with brains.
Hel. Like hell missing an l. Which is probably why Paramount cut all of “her scenes.” She's not a ghost per se, she's a driving presence and a cool piece of set. She's the reason Rotwang hates Joh Fredersen. Maybe referenced in 2001 with HAL because she does become robotic in a sense...
Extended scenes:
Garden scene
Children's rescue (quite extended)
Clash of classes
Fight on top of the cathedral
Other notables:
Double-Direction Individual Perpetual Elevators (DDIPE) are cool. I hope someone doesn't have patents for them.
The Hel mausoleum is a great set that needs to be seen.
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with the cell phone douche, the cowboy hat man, the weird old redheaded lady and a thousand beer bottles as a DVD eggstra?
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So new, previously excised material has been added to the film. But what exactly is it?
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I saw TONS of things I've never seen before. Small bits and some large sequences - especially towards the end. But that Streaming wasn't conducive to anything other than a rough concept of images I wasn't familiar with. The couple of reviews I've seen online tell us it was spectacular. Literally one of the greatest films ever, greater. This restoration will be held next to TOUCH OF EVIL and BRAZIL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA as one of the greatest.
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they will have it at the alamo drafthouse next week? hope hope hope
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awesome...just awesome.
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In front of a live audience, like projected on an outdoor screen but that's been done already, so maybe in their living room maybe through a window, through some bushes, across the street, diagonal, and maybe 30 yards away, in the rain next to a guy talking to somebody on his cellphone. That way you could have Metropolis with a real Caché vibe to it. Yeah, that'd be the ticket!-Cheers
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"This restoration will be held next to TOUCH OF EVIL and BRAZIL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA as one of the greatest."
Harry, are you saying this might even reach the giddy heights of SPACEHUNTER 3D: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE? -
"Witness the awesome power of this armed and fully restored Metropolis."
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the one with stills and the caption cards and it has the documentary. the story is old hat. but those visuals are simply incredible nearly 100 years on.
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"the story is old hat. but those visuals are simply incredible nearly 100 years on"
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Since I'm born and living in Germany, I've got to record the whole Movie from the TV-channel "arte".
I'm gonna make myself a DVD the Recorded Version(even if that means, I'm having that arte-Logo on the sceen).
As for the DVD, my mom got the last Version, not having those 30min in a 2-Disc-Version, so I think, I'll pass on the DVD-Release.
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"You see back in 2009" explains James Cameron from his brain-in-a-jar cryo-suite "we had to render using PC's. But now in 2109 with ionic drive technology I can finally realise my original vision. What changes have we made? Well, of course the first thing I did was to re-name Unobtanium - I know, I know, what the fuck was I smoking back then?"
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...but it sure smells good!
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Google is no bloody help.
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Feb 13, 2010 7:17:17 AM CST
Can't wait for this. Stunning movie. I even like Moroder's ver
by mr nicholas
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...with what you wrote here: "I wasn't a huge Metropolis fan but an admirer. […] In this complete form and in this stellar shape (overall), Metropolis is a true wonder to behold." Absolutely. Yesterday's version was absolutely moving, great orchestra performance (except for some glitches here and there), and finally a coherent film. (I didn't mind the inferior quality of the Argentine material at all.) An absolute must-see. If in any way possible, try to catch it in a US theater that presents it with live orchestra.
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Also watched this last night on Arte HD, but the guy forgot to mention that a few scenes are still missing, as we already knew. Namely we still don't see how Maria manages to escape from Rotwang's lab (I'd forgot how awesome that guy is) and a few more snippets. Those are still replaced with cards describing the scenes, unlike what the guy said. Regardless, with all the new material, the movie finally regains a sense of pace and the experience flows an awfully lot better as a whole. I was still a bit disappointing that they chose to scree it at 24fps and not the original frame rate. Will they ever have the guts to do that? Finally, a big thumbs up for the score, as the guy mentioned, it's short of marvelous and really softens the impact of the inconsistent image quality. Can't wait 'till everyone has the chance to watch this. :)
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If I remember the German announcer (and the opening text cards) correctly, one Argentine scene is still missing from the new cut, because it was at reel changeover and was too badly damaged to restore. (Maybe it will be included as a bonus feature on the BD/DVD.) The film went black for the duration of this missing scene. Apart from this scene, the film was the integral premiere version, was it not? Only a few frames here and there were lost in the Argentine material, substituted by black frames.
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Feb 13, 2010 8:03:16 AM CST
Original FrameRate less than 24fps | arte brodcasted 1080i50 (in
by hornig
hi,
the running time differs because they shot with less than 24fps but it's difficult to convert this to 24 or 25 fps withouth looking "like walking on speed".
and french arte broadcasted in 1080i50 (1440*1080) and german arte in 720p50 (1280*720)
http://bit.ly/9NjS3e
and not in 1080p (unless they used progressive segmented frame, that's progressive 25fps via interlaced 50fps).
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Day one purchase. I love finds like this and restorations. I still hold out out hope more missing Doctor Who is out there somewhere too...
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Fritz Lang was very proud of his film, it wasn't until later when he had been repeatedly told the story didn't hold up and his bitterness for Harbou turning to the Nazis made him decide he had hated it from the beginning. Lang told whatever story you liked to hear.
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Fritz Lang FTW
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Feb 13, 2010 8:26:12 AM CST
I have no idea what this movie is. But am constantly intrigued b
by wickedjester
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it's certainly not gonna play at my local theater that's for sure, but at least I can pick up the blu ray of this baby
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seek it out. Seeing this on a huge screen with an audience is pretty awe-inspiring.
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Feb 13, 2010 9:21:57 AM CST
if it's given at least a limited releaseI might be able to see i
by the_crimson_king
here's hoping
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and came free with The Times. Is that good?
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not only to transfer the movie from an old analog film into a digital format in order to preserve it,but also to repair and enhance the trasnfered damaged image of the film?
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Talk about grasping at fucking straws here... Go back to your numerology and tarot class, you dick.
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@ominus
after restoration http://img709.imageshack.us/i/vlcsnap2010021302h24m26.png/
and I just finished to watch the documentary, that was broadcasted after the main film on arte and I recorded both.
The argentinan orirignal was even worserthan this. and the currentc computer algorithm can not handle such bad condition and magically restore missing details beneath burn-spots.
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there would be no 2001,no Star Wars,no Avatar.If you love scifi then you HAVE to watch this film.and even if you dont,you should see it anyway.Its one of the cornerstones of Cinema.
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Don't think that was there when I first clicked on this article. Very well written. Thanks.
Now all we need is the full 8 hour cut of Eric Von Stroheim's* Greed. The version I HAVE seen is probably one of the best silent movies ever made, though.
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Just take whatever is discernible and rotoscope it frame by frame. Cheap pussies.
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Feb 13, 2010 9:52:43 AM CST
When do the Kenner action figures arrive in stores?
by stereotypical evil archer
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Feb 13, 2010 9:54:37 AM CST
Who's the dumshit thats gonna re-imagine Metroplis?
by stereotypical evil archer
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The problem with Metropolis is that some shots were clearly accelerated (shot at a lower frame rate) because the sets were so big and/or the film was so long already. Also, I agree I should have mentioned the missing scene in my write-up but it was 2AM, so give me a break. And V'Shael, the THX reference was intended as a pun because Lucas clearly borrowed loads off this film and as for Hel and hell, her name is actually the supposed reason why Paramount chopped her out and it went missing for 80 years, you vulgar excuse for a cunt.
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SPOILERS
New sequences
Rotwang and Joh Fredersen reminiscing Hel.
Tall Thug tails Georgy, Freder's doppelganger.
Tall Thug finds Georgy in the red-light district.
Tall Thug finds Josaphat, trues to bribe him into betraying Freder.
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Metroplis in visions a future where buildings reach up to the sky and industrialists live and work in luxury and oppulence at the very top of these buildings. The story centers around one such industrialist and his son. Father has been grieving over the loss of his wife and orders rotwang to build a robotic equivalent. the son falls for maria, who is on the side of the workers who are fermenting revolt. Upon hearing the revolt The industrialist decides to use the robot as a way of keeping and eye on his employers. so rotwang kidnaps maria and builds the robot who looks like her but is much colder. it is the crowd scenes, the visuals that make metropolis outstanding to this day. It remains fritz langs visual masterpiece and is utter triumph when you consider when it was made.
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of who is the dumbshit trying to reimagine matropolis. the answer is Francis Ford Coppola. his film is called megalopolis. I hope it never happens.
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... Get your hands on Frank Norris' brilliant novel McTEAGUE. Stroeheim basically used this novel as his script and he shot every single scene. The novel totally kicks ass and you won't be able to stop turning pages. It's 100 yrs old but feels like it was just written yesterday. Pick it up, seriously.
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Feb 13, 2010 10:37:18 AM CST
Are Queen and Bonnie Tyler and Pat Benatar on the soundtrack?
by rev_skarekroe
No?Fuck it then. Burn the print.
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I remember two scenes still missing, Fredersen fighting with Rotwang, allowing Maria to escape, and Freder listening to an apocalyptic preacher during the intermezzo. And nice to see I wasn't the only one who had to think of James Bond#s Jaws when watching the extended scenes of the thin man. Must have been his iron grip.
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heh-heh-heh..
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Feb 13, 2010 11:21:56 AM CST
Saw the last round of restorations with the Alloy Orchestra
by mortsleam
A completely new score written and performed live by a three man group playing synthesizers and percussive "found" instruments. An amazing show. Almost wish there would be an option to listen to any of several different scores on the BluRay.
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I think sometimes we get so caught up in "restoring the purity of the original" that some cool things get lost/left behind.
Years ago a saw a color tinted print of Metropolis with live organ accompaniment. It was VERY cool. I've yet to see a Tinted print preserved of the movie --- I really wish they would include one on the next blu-ray. That, too, would be an historical experience. -
BNAT'ers want to know!
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and the blu-ray will be autumn/x-mass 2010
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And (almost) fully restored after more than 80 years. Awesome.
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will there be dvd release with that doc. will the berg absent. from the jaws dvd commentary. spielberg seems to hate dvd commentary. digitising his film not so much.
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I always hear about this movie and really felt pretty dumb not knowing about it. I'll have to Netflix it at the very least.The whole things in German, right?
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Metropolis was groundbreaking, truly groundbreaking in terms of its of story scrolling and caption dialoug and its not in german.
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work on the films restoration is simply unsurpassable. i wonder are they involved this.
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I know saying that runs a serious risk of starting a flame war. But here's my thinking. How many people are ever going to sit through the original? I saw the last restoration a few years ago on the big screen. The theatre was almost empty. It just isn't accessible to most people. I think this is true of all pre-talky films. I'm not a supporter of remaking B&W movies for the most part because a well shot black and white film is wonderful to watch. But you are denying a much wider audience the experience because it's buried under such an old format. I'm not saying you hand it over to the esteemed Mr. Bay. But a good filmmaker that truly reveres the original could refilm it and pull it back into the general public consciousness.
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I'm a huge fan of this movie and I can't wait to see it in the theater, I missed all the other releases of it. @boogel: I agree that with the right person you could get a good movie, but too many people would want to put their own mark on it and ruin it.
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has been trying to do this for decades.
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The Power of Bay Compels You…
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Coppola's film is Megalopolis, NOT Metropolis.
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Are there rights issue? It's old enough I would think the whole thing would be public domain. Or is it a money thing. Remaking Metropolis in 1980 would have been hugely expensive...doing it with CG sets should make it doable nowadays.
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Bring it on, bitch.
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He simply can't get enough anymore to do it. Which is a shame because it sounded fantastic - nor was it, to my recollection, a remake of Metropolis. It was about an architect (supposedly to be played by Warren Beatty) vying with city officials over creating a whole new kind of New York.
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studios. ffc has been outside he studio system for quite a while. and has not a major box office in decades. he sunk himself in the studios eyes with jack. they want nothing to di with him
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One of the finest films of last year, which no one saw.
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Even though I've owned a DVD copy for years (and the quality of it is very poor).I think this upcoming version will warant my full viewing attention.
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last night. It was the queer version with pat benatar and freddie mercury on the soundtrack though. It was a good intro and I think it will let me appreciate the new version that much more. Aside from the music I enjoyed it very much.
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...it's a fair riff. But it wouldn't have the ground-breaking shit going on, to put it colloquially. Metropolis is special just like The Stars is My Destination is special: no one even imagined these cyborgy-jaunty thingies until they were written and coherently explained and vividly exploited. 1927 and 1956. These are the dates. You think teletransportation would have figured in Star Trek (1966) without the Jaunt? You think Blade Runner would have convinced producers without Metropolis, a mere 65 years prior? The answers are in the questions. I'm not shocked by your premise, it's just dead wrong because it would be unoriginal. Now, that doesn't mean some Hollywood exec won't greenlight a remake of Metropolis. That doesn't mean the audience they'll be targeting won't be totally oblivious to the original: indeed who knows of a long-lost half-treasure? But, they won't get props for originality, if they don't get sued for plagiarism. Metropolis is it's own thing: as much a timeless classic as a timely mirror of its era. Metropolis will never be toppled: it's the Christopher Columbus of Sci-Fi films, made twenty years before 1984 was even published. A remake wouldn't be a remake of Metropolis: it would be a remake of all the films that have already tried to remake it. Therefore, the copy of a copy and we all know how that pans out.
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Feb 13, 2010 6:46:21 PM CST
HARRY: Any follow-up on LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT you wrote about?
by planetran_fan
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Feb 13, 2010 6:47:06 PM CST
HARRY: Any follow-up on LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT you wrote about?
by planetran_fan
And that alleged "found" print?
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remain the greatest films coppolla has and will ever do.
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I recommend this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBo5K0ZQIEY
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the last really great big coppolla film. but it was ruined by anthony hopkins. and his ham acting. I dont think cappolla cares. even sofia threw him off the set of one her films. you dont hear to much from her these days.
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If ever a film needed to be remade, it's this.
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... Hopefully, no one will write anything before I do. And Harry, I'm touched you called me "wonderful," for the record, I was first to claim Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a masterpiece and I called The Pianist glorious before anyone thought about giving it Oscars (just saying, obvious but I was there first, different pseudos, I think it was "Man from Kamino" or some inane shit like that). Anyway, 76 posts, 76 being my number, I am posting to say absolutely nothing.
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Where the fuck did you guys get this from "Metropolis finally hits in its completed form?" I thought this was a geek/cinephiliac zone. Are you all actually Hollywood execs on coke? Remakes are for talentless fucks who believe Robert Wise didn't have his shit together and who think that if they "Keanu" it (yep, Keanu is a verb), the audience would come.Whatever, this is the cyberspace but still... Is that all the love for the medium you have? Can't muster more?
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I just wish there was a way to get this film seen by someone other than the occasional geek and film students. I'm having trouble coming up with an analogy that works. Insisting that Metropolis always be seen in its original incarnation is sorta like never letting books be translated out of the language they were written. Purist will be quick to point out what is lost but it's the only way to let the ideas in the book percolate globally. That is what I think the danger of keeping Metropolis archeologically pristine is. You end up with films making reference to films making reference to films making reference to...a movie no one has actually seen.
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we've seen enough ideas already taken from this film, Blade Runner, THX-1138, Lucas' Coruscant in Star Wars, The Fifth Element- the list goes on but we've seen enough to not need a remake!!
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back in the day, how did Fritz get those rings around Maria?
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And nobody ever will! Give it up HARRY!!!
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On what Google considers Fritz Lang's official Metropolis website... They have what looks like a teaser poster with "April 2010" on it. I would guess that is when it will be released theatrically.
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I expect to see an article on this tomorrow morning. Get to fucking work.
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Along with "Treasure of the Four Crowns" 'cause that was in 3D.
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beating his meat about the restoration of an eighty three year old movie. Think about that for a second. That is nothing more than an excercise in reminding us who is the Alpha Geek. It certainly has nothing to do with loving film.
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They made the rings with simple brightly lit paper cutouts over a matte of the robot. It was all done in camera, rewinding the camera over and over until you got all the layers right.
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They made the shark digital??? I see one scene in the whole film that needs that. the long shot with him coming around the boat and looking to short and fat in the tail. The rest of the shark work in the film is fine. Just that one fucked up scene is wrong. Oh you must be joking right????
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Directed by Brett Ratner
Script by Bob Orci and Hackiva Goldsman
Starring: Seth Rogen, Johna Hill, Chris Tucker, Jessica Alba and Shia Leboufe.
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When am I getting THIS restored version?? Or how about Kill Bill: the whole bloody affair?
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was irony, but they're all going to suck except for Toy Story 3. And Eclipse? Really? I hope you're not talking about the new twilight movie, because naming that in the same sentence as Toy Story 3 should be just cause to shut this site down forever.
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Hopefully.
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the director said that he didnt ripoff the original movie,since he never watched it.he admited that he got the idea for his movie,from the poster of the original movie.i say bullshit.and people accuse Avatar for plagiarism.
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is the 2nd directorial effort from irish writer and playwright conor mcpherson. he writes ghost stories better then anyone. its stars ciaran hinds and adian quinn and ibjen heile.
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It was a hoax. If you were following the messageboard where the guy originally reported it, after awhile he started deleting people's posts just for being skeptical and asking questions. Then he locked the whole thread so nobody could post on it but him.
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Toy Story 3 is easily my most anticipated sequel of the year.
As far as anticipated movie? Inception might have that.
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I was over on the bafta site and on the 1st of feb 2010. bafta hosted a night to douglas slocombe. one of the most outstanding figures in cinematic in cinema history. slocombe is 97 years of age. yet there was no mention of this tribute on this site, no link to bafta site so people could see, this extraordinary man get this honour. this film site is pathetic that it didnt even know that this tribute was taking place. has been mentioned again and again on the talkbacks. i think it is becoming very true that nobody cares about film. if that is the case what is the point of this site. really, whats the point?
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I'll get stoned and rant after.It's widely available out there if you know how to search. XviD is nice quality with English subtitles.
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Seriously? I didn't know that Lang was also one of the Sturmwaisen. What was the hidden footage like? Or did you forget to bring your sallyrand?
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Feb 14, 2010 12:39:08 PM CST
I'll never understand why Metropolis bombed back then.
by dr. samuel loomis
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for all the money that went into making the film. i think there was a fire at the studio and some of the footage was deemed to be lost so lang had to rush the production along to meet the deadline of the premiere. the film was incomplete then. after the rise of hitler, lang abandoned germany for america, his wife was card carrying member of the nazis. and lang exiled himself in america and never returned. he was followed to the us billy wilder and FW murnau. Murnau never really had much of career in the US while wilder and Lang flurished. wilder ended his life a reclusive and eneded up detesting hollywood.
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not that it really matters beeing a silent movie, but if you pay attention to the actors lips you can see them talking german..
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thats why
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was that douglas slomcobe was in the same room was james joyce. 1921 in paris. that is amazing.
www.bafta.org and shame on harry for not putting this up on his up sooner. is it me or are harrys contributions to this minimal. he created this site, you would think that he would have a bigger say. -
is with a full live orchestra
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is with a full live orchestra
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...with a dead orchestra is also pretty fun.
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will kick the asses of ALL those films combined. Count on it.
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Is just a movie about unions.
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Feb 15, 2010 2:19:53 AM CST
Err...no. The greatest Coppola film is NOT "The Godfather"...
by motoko kusanagi
...it's most definitely "Apocalypse Now".Just watch "Hearts of Darkness-A Filmmaker's Apocalypse", the stunning making-of documentary with original behind-the-scenes footage shot by Coppola's wife and you know why.
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How much would you pay to put your own mouth on your penis Harry Knowles??
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Did anyone catch Jeff Bridges on the Jonathan Ross show on Friday? Apparently they were shooting without a script and JF, RDJ and JB had to improvise. You know. I thought RDJ was too improvisory IMO!
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but i didnt see the interview.
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many years ago. what a piece of work. i dont think FFC ever recovered from that film. in much the same way, bob and harvey never recovered from being fired from miramaz.
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Didn't know the LAM story was a hoax.
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I'm finding it pretty hard to get excited about this...this film is so old that it seems to me no one under 60 is going to give a damn about going to see it unless its not so much a re-make as a total make-over....
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wouldn't call it a remake, but it's definitely pretty bloody awesome. Made by the same bloke who made Astro Boy.
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