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Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
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| Product Description: | | | | | It is the future & humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers who make plans (but dont know how anything works) & the workers who achieve goals (but dont have the vision). One man from the thinkers dares visit the underground where the workers toil & is astonished by what he sees.. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 11/09/2004 Run time: 124 minutes | | | | Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity and the characters' individual trajectories. Most crucially, the images are crisp, vibrant, and three-dimensional instead of murky and flattened. The composite sequences (the Tower of Babel, a sea of lusting eyes) have been restored to their hallucinatory ferocity. And there's one moment when you can see a bead of sweat roll down a man's cheek--in medium long-shot. --Richard T. Jameson | |
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0 of 0 people found the above review helpful.: | | Very forward-looking for its time, March 14, 2010 |
| | For what it is and when it was made, this is a forward-looking film that gives a simplistic but appealing message about treating workers fairly and not building empires on the backs and on the blood, tears, and sweat of others. Obviously, many parts of the world are still not that progressive and probably never will be, human nature being what it is.
The idea of blending a robot with a human is also fascinating and is explored to some degree here, both literally and metaphorically.
The score seems to be pervasive and rather distracting, and the quality isn't all that good. But these elements can be overlooked for the overall purpose.
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0 of 0 people found the above review helpful.: |  Truely Great, March 3, 2010 |
| | This movie just astounded me. A great job done on the reproduction and its special features were just as good. Even my kids loved this movie.
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0 of 0 people found the above review helpful.: |  Impossible to view, February 25, 2010 |
| | Sadly it was not possible to view this classical masterpiece because the dvd had the wrong regioncode ( NTSC in case of PAL, necessary for Europe). Nor Amazon neither me could know this because the box didn't mention the regioncode but the disc did not mention it either. So I could not enjoy it. I cannot return the dvd because I needed to play it to find out the regioncode problem. Something to know when you're living in Europe and want to view Metropolis.
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3 of 3 people found the above review helpful.: |  The Newest Version Is Coming 2010, February 19, 2010 |
| | The NY Times reports an additional 28 minutes of the original film has been discovered, in Argentina. Its 16mm, and has been integrated into the 32mm version now most generally available...the new version actually synchronizes with the original score ! (Google the story in the NY Times, week of 02-13-10)
Its been shown little so far in 2010 (in Berlin of course), but I have no doubt it will receive dvd release after a brief theatrical run (how many people have even heard of this film in this, the age of Avatar?).
In the meantime, I'd avoid all these lousy copies of a copy of an "enhanced" copy (who's doing these enhancements by the way? I have software on my computer that is supposed to enhance videos, but I'm not rushing out to hype my version of old public domain films.
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4 of 4 people found the above review helpful.: | | Here comes the fully-restored version...., January 23, 2010 |
| | Restored version with live symphony orchestra playing the original score premieres simultaneously in Berlin and Frankfurt on 12 February 2010.
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