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csjlong

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 3:02 AM
csjlong
Member since:
October 2004
Hot damn, this is exciting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_metropolis_footage

Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic "Metropolis," recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.

A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film sat for 80 years in a private collection and then in the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires, where it was discovered in April with scratched images that hadn't been seen before.

Museum director Paula Felix-Didier said theirs is the only copy of German director Fritz Lang's complete film.

"This is the version Fritz Lang intended," said Martin Koerber, a curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek film museum in Berlin, Germany.

Falcon01

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 7:23 AM
Falcon01
Member since:
July 2006
Holy moly. How could they not know that they had it this whole time? Geez I wonder what else they have. :p I hope it gets restored and released.

Here's a pic of the reporters on July 3rd watching the lost scenes that were found...



It's three-and-a-half hours long!
[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 7:42 AM]

Tim Raynor

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 9:02 AM
says... It looks fake . . . very fake!
Tim Raynor
Member since:
March 2002
And this will be me watching it just after 30-minutes:



Falcon01

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 9:50 AM
Falcon01
Member since:
July 2006
Ha! Great pic.

mvckalel

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 9:53 AM
says... I now own UP and Monsters, Inc. on blu-ray!!!
mvckalel
Member since:
October 2007
I wish I had seen it in a museum three days ago...the cut version, not this one...

John J. Puccio

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 11:19 AM
says... "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." --A.E. Neuman
John J. Puccio
Member since:
March 2002
Now, the question is how long it will take Criterion to negotiate the rights.

John

csjlong

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 1:08 PM
csjlong
Member since:
October 2004
30 minutes? You're finally making some progress!

posters5

Jul 4, 2008 - CDT 5:15 PM
posters5
Member since:
March 2002
john,

kino has the rights and will release the newly discovered version on dvd and blu-ray.

eddie

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