Curiosa: Director's cut?
Sniggled from Ansible: a damaged but more complete print of Fritz Lang's silent SF masterpiece Metropolis has turned up in Argentina. Restoration is underway.
Metropolis.
Uncut. (Or less cut.)
WHEE!
Please, please, please, somebody arrange for an art-house release of this new version once it's been cleaned up. I saw the last one, with intertitles offering explanations of the probable missing bits -- but seeing the actual missing bits in their proper places projected onto a big screen? Priceless. (Preferably accompanied by an audience willing to roll with the conventions of early twentieth-century cinema. Yes, the evening-clothed gentlemen mugging outrageously at the camera when the robot femme fatale makes her debut look rather silly now, but AFAIK their mime is not primarily comic. Please to chuckle quietly under your breath, if chuckle you must.)
Metropolis.
Uncut. (Or less cut.)
WHEE!
Please, please, please, somebody arrange for an art-house release of this new version once it's been cleaned up. I saw the last one, with intertitles offering explanations of the probable missing bits -- but seeing the actual missing bits in their proper places projected onto a big screen? Priceless. (Preferably accompanied by an audience willing to roll with the conventions of early twentieth-century cinema. Yes, the evening-clothed gentlemen mugging outrageously at the camera when the robot femme fatale makes her debut look rather silly now, but AFAIK their mime is not primarily comic. Please to chuckle quietly under your breath, if chuckle you must.)