Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
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Actor: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Gustav Fr?hlich, Rudolf Klein-RoggeDirector: Fritz Lang
Brand: Kino Video
Cinematographer: G?nther Rittau
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Cinematographer: Walter Ruttmann
Writer: Fritz Lang
Producer: Erich Pommer
Producer: Giorgio Moroder
Writer: Thea von Harbou
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
Movie Review: Kino is version to get.
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is a classic. Exceptional. The first of the great scifis. Enough already.... On to the important part of the review: which version to get. Kino is, without a doubt the best edition out there. I've seen a few others and was extremely dissapointed. The problem is that lots of scenes from the original print have been lost. Many editions have not tried to keep the original complex storyline intact and so the entire beauty of the movie has been lost (to say nothing of the bad orchestral accompaniments and bad print qualities to go around!).
Kino has a great soundtrack, wonderful print quality and is faithful to the original storyline. so much so that when there is a missing scene, Kino puts up an intertitle to explain what was happening int he missing scene so that the original storyline still makes sense.
Get this version or don't get any. And, of course, enjoy!
Summary of Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
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 minutesFritz 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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