Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)

Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang

Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)

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Actor: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Gustav Fr?hlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Director: 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

DVD Reviews of Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)

DVD 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!

DVD Review: Metropolis (w/ original 1927 score) Kino Video
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is the roots of movie Sci-fi, The only way this DVD could be better is if they ever find the missing footage, (about 20 min's). the restoration on the dvd is more that anyone could hope for. This is probably as close to the original release as possible.

DVD Review: Newly Restored Copy
Summary: 4 Stars

Do we know when the newly found copy will be restored and available for sale?

DVD Review: Wait for it.........
Summary: 1 Stars

a MUCH better version is in the works from the print found in South America. I'm waiting for it. (I already have two other versions.)

DVD Review: 5 stars in honor of Fritz Lang's creation & Moroder's presentation.
Summary: 5 Stars

I do not believe that I could add any more to the praise for Fritz Lang's ground-breaking SciFi classic. Instead I will just add a bit of information for someone that is trying to track down a copy of Giorgio Moroder's fantastic version with his Rock based soundtrack.
The Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis was released on VHS by Vestron Video, PO Box 4000, Stamford, Ct 06907. The VHS tape has a part number of VA5090 and a UPC of 0-28485-15090. I was lucky enough to buy this from a Video store clerk for $85 about 18 years ago. This version has a fantastic sound track and is really fun to watch. The Moroder version was also released on Laser Disc. Both versions are 87 minutes.
This version would of course be perfect for re-mastering to Blu-ray. One can only hope.

Description 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 minutes

Fritz 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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