Metropolis Restored

 awesomeness, history, science fiction
Mar 122011
 

I somehow missed this at the end of last year… a restored version of Metropolis released on DVD and Blu Ray. In 2008, about half an hour of presumed-lost footage was found hidden away in Argentina, and this has been restored to the movie (and the movie as a whole restored). Metropolis is one of the great science fiction movies of all time, depite the fact it’s silent. Growing up, all I knew was that I wanted to grow up to be Rotwang.

I haven’t bought this yet (yay, poverty), but I sure wish I had me one of them there Blu Ray thingies. Maybe if enough of y’all click on the links below and spend, spend, spend at Amazon, I’ll be able to afford one…

 Posted by at 11:11 pm

  4 Responses to “Metropolis Restored”

  1. Michel Van says:
    March 13, 2011 at 8:02 am

    This is most complete restored version of Orginal, only 8 minute are lost.

    But beware, the Argentina footage is a heavy damaged 16 mm film
    the Germans F. W. Murnau Stiftung make ther best to get maxium out of it
    but 8 minute Film were so destroy it was impossible to restore
    and rest 25 minute has a “deplorable” condition even after its restored !

    so you will see that the movie to take turns of gorgeous 32 mm film, into bad 16 mm.
    see this trailer for that
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSExdX0tds4
    By the way this DVD has the Orginal 1927 soundtrack by Gottfried Huppertz!

  2. Pat Flannery says:
    March 13, 2011 at 8:47 am

    They ran the new restored version on TCM recently, and to tell you the truth, I wasn’t all that impressed with it. I was expecting a lot more cleaned up and brightness balanced version than what they had done.
    I’ll take the Giorgio Moroder version any day of the week.
    One restored movie that does work great is the colorized version of Things To Come that came out a while back.
    The giant Wings Over The World aircraft look downright majestic in that one:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPJsnTegGlA&NR=1

  3. Michel Van says:
    March 13, 2011 at 11:47 am

    Normally I’m against colorization of B&W Movies
    but this here is pretty cool

    Let me gess, this colorised version of TCM is only to buy on DVD & BluRay
    while the orginal b&W is public Domain and so Free to download ?

  4. Bruce says:
    March 14, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    They have this on normal DVD at our local library,so it is easy to obtain.

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