Restored Metropolis - Going on Tour Before December DVD
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wuher da brewer
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Re: Restored Metropolis - L.A. Screening April 2010
Here is a link for the dates of the tour before it lands on DVD.
http://www.kino.com/metropolis/playdates.html#play
Here is a link for the dates of the tour before it lands on DVD.
http://www.kino.com/metropolis/playdates.html#play
darth_myeek
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Re: Restored Metropolis - L.A. Screening April 2010
Thanks WDB, I would have missed this.
Thanks WDB, I would have missed this.
darth_myeek
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Re: Restored Metropolis - S.F. Screening July, 16th 2010
Saw Metropolis Friday night (7/16) in San Francisco. If you have a chance in your city go. If not, the BluRay will be amazing. :thumbsup Paula Félix-Didier and Fernando Peña (see below) were there for a Q&A session before the screening. I loved how this print is patched together. It takes missing scenes from a scratchy but nearly complete 16mm print found in Buenos Aires and interlaces it with an immaculate copy of known scenes from the edited version. I like the scratchy nature of the missing scenes as it's a clear queue that it's the found footage. There are just a few minutes of film which are still missing; but those moments are bridged by text based description in a different font. Just a great film.
Source Article.
S.F. Silent Film Festival: Uncut 'Metropolis'
Author: G. Allen Johnson
"This is the most important find in cinema history," said Anita Monga, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's artistic director - and she's not exaggerating.
In 2008, a 16mm print of the complete, 150-minute version of "Metropolis" - unseen since distributors cut Fritz Lang's science fiction classic by about 45 minutes shortly after its 1927 premiere - was unearthed in a cinema archive in Buenos Aires. That spurred more than a year of restoration efforts.
On Friday night at the Castro Theatre, the complete "Metropolis" will play in San Francisco, surely one of the biggest nights in the 15 years of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
"Until they find the missing 'Greed' footage," said Monga, referring to Erich von Stroheim's 1925 classic that was shorn of some six of its eight hours, "it is the find of the century."
The festival begins on a Thursday night for the first time. Tonight's opener is John Ford's first great Western, "The Iron Horse" (1924), an epic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad made when Ford's future star John Wayne was a high school lad yet to break into movies.
Sunday's closing-night film is "L'heureuse mort" ("Happy Death"), a comedy about an unsuccessful playwright who is swept overboard during a sea voyage and is presumed dead. When he turns up alive months later, he finds his work has been re-evaluated and he's now considered France's greatest dramatist.
"My top two picks of the festival are 'Rotaie' and 'L'heureuse mort,' " Monga said. "They're really revelations, and they're never seen. They're total discoveries for us."
"Rotaie," showing right before "Metropolis" on Friday night, is a moving Italian film about a poor couple who find some money and go on a spending spree, then get taken in by a con artist, a film Monga compares to F.W. Murnau's classic "Sunrise."
Other highlights: Film critic Leonard Maltin interviewing the children of director William Wyler after a screening of their father's boxing drama "The Shakedown" (noon Sunday); Pete Docter (director of Pixar's "Up") introducing a selection of short comedy films (10 a.m. Saturday) and a lifetime achievement award to silent film historian Kevin Brownlow (4 p.m. Saturday, with a screening of Frank Capra's 1926 slapstick comedy "The Strong Man").
The crown jewel, of course, is "Metropolis," which will be accompanied by a rousing score performed by the Alloy Orchestra and, as special guests from Argentina, the pair who found the lost footage - Paula Félix-Didier and Fernando Peña, who certainly have earned their footnote in cinema history.
Through Sunday. Check website for showtimes. Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., S.F. (415) 621-6120. The Castro Theatre.
- G. Allen Johnson, ajohnson@sfchronicle.com.
Saw Metropolis Friday night (7/16) in San Francisco. If you have a chance in your city go. If not, the BluRay will be amazing. :thumbsup Paula Félix-Didier and Fernando Peña (see below) were there for a Q&A session before the screening. I loved how this print is patched together. It takes missing scenes from a scratchy but nearly complete 16mm print found in Buenos Aires and interlaces it with an immaculate copy of known scenes from the edited version. I like the scratchy nature of the missing scenes as it's a clear queue that it's the found footage. There are just a few minutes of film which are still missing; but those moments are bridged by text based description in a different font. Just a great film.
Source Article.
S.F. Silent Film Festival: Uncut 'Metropolis'
Author: G. Allen Johnson
"This is the most important find in cinema history," said Anita Monga, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's artistic director - and she's not exaggerating.
In 2008, a 16mm print of the complete, 150-minute version of "Metropolis" - unseen since distributors cut Fritz Lang's science fiction classic by about 45 minutes shortly after its 1927 premiere - was unearthed in a cinema archive in Buenos Aires. That spurred more than a year of restoration efforts.
On Friday night at the Castro Theatre, the complete "Metropolis" will play in San Francisco, surely one of the biggest nights in the 15 years of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
"Until they find the missing 'Greed' footage," said Monga, referring to Erich von Stroheim's 1925 classic that was shorn of some six of its eight hours, "it is the find of the century."
The festival begins on a Thursday night for the first time. Tonight's opener is John Ford's first great Western, "The Iron Horse" (1924), an epic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad made when Ford's future star John Wayne was a high school lad yet to break into movies.
Sunday's closing-night film is "L'heureuse mort" ("Happy Death"), a comedy about an unsuccessful playwright who is swept overboard during a sea voyage and is presumed dead. When he turns up alive months later, he finds his work has been re-evaluated and he's now considered France's greatest dramatist.
"My top two picks of the festival are 'Rotaie' and 'L'heureuse mort,' " Monga said. "They're really revelations, and they're never seen. They're total discoveries for us."
"Rotaie," showing right before "Metropolis" on Friday night, is a moving Italian film about a poor couple who find some money and go on a spending spree, then get taken in by a con artist, a film Monga compares to F.W. Murnau's classic "Sunrise."
Other highlights: Film critic Leonard Maltin interviewing the children of director William Wyler after a screening of their father's boxing drama "The Shakedown" (noon Sunday); Pete Docter (director of Pixar's "Up") introducing a selection of short comedy films (10 a.m. Saturday) and a lifetime achievement award to silent film historian Kevin Brownlow (4 p.m. Saturday, with a screening of Frank Capra's 1926 slapstick comedy "The Strong Man").
The crown jewel, of course, is "Metropolis," which will be accompanied by a rousing score performed by the Alloy Orchestra and, as special guests from Argentina, the pair who found the lost footage - Paula Félix-Didier and Fernando Peña, who certainly have earned their footnote in cinema history.
Through Sunday. Check website for showtimes. Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., S.F. (415) 621-6120. The Castro Theatre.
- G. Allen Johnson, ajohnson@sfchronicle.com.
Rotwang
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Here is one of the older versions.
YouTube - Metropolis‎
For almost 50 years this is what most people knew when you spoke of Metropolis. I think it is more significant than the 2001 restoration which is now orphaned by the 2010 version.
YouTube - Metropolis‎
For almost 50 years this is what most people knew when you spoke of Metropolis. I think it is more significant than the 2001 restoration which is now orphaned by the 2010 version.
Thanks for updating this, I almost missed it! I will go see it Saturday for sure!
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