Merrick here...
Apple has posted the trailer for THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS - aka "That METROPOLIS Resotration" - in Glorious QuickTime. I believe a lower rez version of this trailer has been available for a bit, but Kino's Twitter feed just plugged its (really handsome) HD appearance, so I thought I'd pass along the news. This is for the recently restored version of the title incorporating "presumed lost" footage discovered back in 2008 or so (details HERE). This elongated iteration of the film premiered overseas back in February. The "new" (i.e. re-incorporated) footage fleshes out the picture's story a bit, and helps us to appreciate some wonderful nuances. You can definitely tell where the recovered material has been interwoven, as the physical quality of the recovered material doesn't match the "look" of what's around it; all things considered, it shouldn't be expected to. It's hard to imagine a little more cleaning/high-powered finessing by computer couldn't have resulted in more robust image quality (referring specifically to the damaged/recovered material), but this still stands as an amazing and effective look at a movie which is being seen...the way its makers wanted it to be seen...for the first time in a very, very long time. I can't wait to see this new version a few more times. If you have a love of cinema in general, or if you're any kind of Science Fiction nut whatsoever, or if you're simply keen on timeless/socially relevant stories, I can't recommend the film - this version in particular - highly enough. It's making the theatrical rounds, somewhat limitedly, over the next many months before an issuance on Blu-Ray towards year's end. Follow Rotwang's beauty to the trailer!!!

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