Friday, July 4, 2008
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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.
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.
Friday, July 4, 2008
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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]
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]
Friday, July 4, 2008
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And this will be me watching it just after 30-minutes:
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Ha! Great pic.
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I wish I had seen it in a museum three days ago...the cut version, not this one...
Friday, July 4, 2008
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Now, the question is how long it will take Criterion to negotiate the rights.
John
John
Friday, July 4, 2008
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30 minutes? You're finally making some progress!
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john,
kino has the rights and will release the newly discovered version on dvd and blu-ray.
eddie
kino has the rights and will release the newly discovered version on dvd and blu-ray.
eddie
