"Metropolis," as it was meant to be seen! (For real, this time.)
Few movies are as incomplete yet overwhelmingly influential as Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis." Any movie you've seen with enormous, gigantic architecture set in an ominous future or a mythical past -- "Brazil," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Fifth Element," even this year's "The International" -- stole some of its moves from Lang's skyscrapers and underground dens. Brutally cut upon release and restored and re-released an impossible amount of times since, "Metropolis" is finally whole again. A complete 16mm copy was discovered at Argentina's Museo del Cine last year, and the complete restoration will premiere February 10 at next year's Berlin International Film Festival. There's a condensed version of how the print was found here, though a better rendition, from September 2008's Sight & Sound, is sadly not online. Basically, it'd been sitting, forgotten, in the archives until museum director Paula Félix-Didier's ex-husband remembered hearing about how a horribly degraded, two-hour plus...
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