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Staring:
Brigitte Helm,
Alfred Abel,
Gustav Fröhlich,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge,
Fritz Rasp
Director:
Fritz Lang
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $16.40
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Kino International
EAN: 0738329027520
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Silent, NTSC
Label: Paramount Pictures
Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Paramount Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-02-18
Running Time: 153
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1927-03-13 |
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Product Description
A view of the future in which people either live underground or in a wonderous aboveground city ; a story of Seigfried and his quest for a wife, follo
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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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Metropolis, 2010-08-27
I had never seen this movie before, but when I watched it, I was facinated by the effects for that time period. Seemed to drag in some spots but overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who havent seen it yet!
Can't Wait for the 2010 Version, 2010-07-08
I have the 2003 Kino restoration and absolutely love it. The 2010 Kino restoration is to include additional footage found in 2008. It's a very symbolic silent film that is so applicable to today - the "haves" and "have nots," the working man, the corporate bosses, and so on. I saw a version of Metropolis on cable (USA) and that version was supposed to have the original orchestral score with it. It makes a world of difference in watching it. I've looked long and hard to find this version because other versions had the wrong music - some about listening to "happy, cheerful" music and watching a serious scene just doesn't cut it - or was just a poor quality. The Kino restoration has the original score. The effects used were pretty good considering the time. Sure it's not CGI, but I'm not sure CGI would have the same impact if it was used. The latest restoration will not be available until later this year and, yes, I will be getting that version. That version is being show around the country now. Go to the Kino website for details.
Industrial Strength Nightmare - The New Remastered Film!, 2010-08-14
Tonight I saw the presentation of Metropolis, Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece -- many scenes thought lost were re-discovered and put together by Kino Video, which is slated to be released in November 2010.
The scenes that were missing were black-streaked since these parts were originally badly damaged. You can see the difference between these scenes and the cleaned-up, restored scenes. English subtitles with some of the German language scenes and nice, bright white, easily read fonts graced the screen.
What an interesting story! And so complex!
Lessons: The Machine is All! The machine must be tended to at all times. When the workers change shifts they march into work, slow, heads down, laboring, laboring, laboring. The whistle blows after a ten hour shift. Then they go below to the underground workers' city deep in the earth.
The industrialist brain behind this shiny, bright city is Joh Fredersen. His son Freder is a playboy who gets his pick of the women at The Club of the Sons. He's checking out the girls and having a great time until a strange woman comes into the Club with a bunch of ragged children. "These are your brothers", she intones.
Who was that girl?
Freder then explores the inner city and is shocked by the working conditions. He imagines the machine is a god and that the workers are slaves, sacrificing their bodies and flesh to the maw that is The Machine.
Clearly the director is making a statement about where the Industrial Age is heading.
But then we get to the Inventor, his plan within a plan. We discover Maria, a passionate woman who says that the workers (Hands) and the management (Brain) have no way to communicate. They need a "mediator". A Heart. And she falls in love with that Heart.
Amazing tale, insightful, and at times unintentionally funny -- the scenes with the humanoid made flesh to look like Maria dancing at a club with "the upper ten thousand" is very humorous -- the prancing, the staring and ogling -- just too much.
Highly recommended! Do get the new release from Kino Video as soon as they release it!
Quotable Quotes from Metropolis!
* Freder: It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme?
Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths.
* Maria: There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
* Maria: "We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!" Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it. The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many - BABEL! BABEL! BABEL! - Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart.
Other Fritz Lang Recommendations:
M - 2 Disc Special Edition - Criterion Collection
Woman In the Moon
Destiny (aka Der müde Tod)
BUYER BEWARE! WAIT FOR NOV 2010 DVD!, 2010-07-16
DON'T BUY THIS DVD IF YOU'RE EXPECTING TO WATCH THE LOST SEGMENT OF THE FILM THAT WAS FOUND IN SOUTH AMERICA AND ADDS MORE THAN 20 MINUTES TO THE FILM! IT'S SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE IN NOVEMBER 2010 BY ANOTHER DVD COMPANY. THIS DVD WITH SHIRT WAS CONVENIENTLY RELEASED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE IT. IF YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THE SAME OLD 2 HOUR DVD AND WANT A SHIRT THEN BUY IT. OTHERWISE KEEP YOUR MONEY FOR THE NOVEMBER RELEASE OF METROPOLIS WITH THE LOST SEGMENTS. IT'LL MAKE A GREAT XMAS GIFT.
Fritz Lang's Art-Deco epic arrives 16.11.10, 2010-08-26
Thanks to a 16mm negative being unearthed in Buenos Aires the new Kino films Blu-ray has 25 minutes of extra footage. The new 2010 restoration has taken a year.
The Blu-ray includes the original 1927 score by Gottfried Huppertz, performed by the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, presented in DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
It also includes a 50 minute documentary on the making and restoration of the remastered masterpiece, called "Voyage to Metropolis" and an interview with Paula Felix-Didier who is the curator of the Museo del Cine.
The Blu-ray comes in a Limited Edition Collectible 3-D Lenticuar Box Package.
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