Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
directed by: Fritz Lang
directed by: Fritz Lang
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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 InternationalRelease Date: 11/09/2004Run time: 124 minutes
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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
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 InternationalRelease Date: 11/09/2004Run time: 124 minutes
Amazon.com essential video:
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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- Lang's Sci-Fi Masterpiece
As one of the earliest examples of cinematic science fiction and fantasy, "Destiny" director Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" ranks as an unparalleled achievement in its size, scope, and vision. Forty years would elapse before Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) would rival Lang's epic spectacle about a troubled, dystopian society fractured along the fault lines of the economic inequality that isolated the haves and the have-nots. Nevertheless, nothing could ever be said to surpass "Metropolis" ... Read More
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- Fans, wait just a little longer!
It took a while, but I finally received word from a representative from the Murnau Foundation, who owns distribution and restoration rights to the recently discovered print of "Metropolis" in Buenos Aires, that work on a restored (and almost whole!) version will be completed (hopefully) sometime in early 2010. No specific day given as DVD and TV rights have to be finalized as well. This should prove worth the wait. They do other great work in film restoration, and we should all take a minute sometime ... Read More
Rating: - Pioneering science fiction
This is a kick to watch.The techniques used to make the film were so advanced it still holds up to modern sensibilities.
Rating: - More to come in 2010
This is absolutely one of my favorite films! It is a visually stunning movie, all the more for being made 82 years ago. Kino did a fantastic job of restoring the print to where it looks like a movie made much more recently. I have heard from several places that there is a newly discovered 210-minute virtually complete print of the film and Kino will be releasing it in 2010. If so, I will definitely be double-dipping on this movie.
Rating: - Fritz Lang's greatest work and a great version for 20 bucks
Set in the future, Metropolis is a silent-film that showcases the time transcending theme of the social inequalities between the rich and the poor, between workers and the owners in capitalism.Even in 1926 when the book was written by Lang's wife Thea von Harbou, were these issues that still exist today very prevalent to people.
German born director Fritz Lang is considered by many as being the greatest director of all time.As far as German Expressionism is concerned, Fritz Lang may not ... Read More
- Lang's Sci-Fi MasterpieceAs one of the earliest examples of cinematic science fiction and fantasy, "Destiny" director Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" ranks as an unparalleled achievement in its size, scope, and vision. Forty years would elapse before Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) would rival Lang's epic spectacle about a troubled, dystopian society fractured along the fault lines of the economic inequality that isolated the haves and the have-nots. Nevertheless, nothing could ever be said to surpass "Metropolis" ... Read More
- Fans, wait just a little longer!It took a while, but I finally received word from a representative from the Murnau Foundation, who owns distribution and restoration rights to the recently discovered print of "Metropolis" in Buenos Aires, that work on a restored (and almost whole!) version will be completed (hopefully) sometime in early 2010. No specific day given as DVD and TV rights have to be finalized as well. This should prove worth the wait. They do other great work in film restoration, and we should all take a minute sometime ... Read More
- Pioneering science fictionThis is a kick to watch.The techniques used to make the film were so advanced it still holds up to modern sensibilities.
- More to come in 2010This is absolutely one of my favorite films! It is a visually stunning movie, all the more for being made 82 years ago. Kino did a fantastic job of restoring the print to where it looks like a movie made much more recently. I have heard from several places that there is a newly discovered 210-minute virtually complete print of the film and Kino will be releasing it in 2010. If so, I will definitely be double-dipping on this movie.
- Fritz Lang's greatest work and a great version for 20 bucksSet in the future, Metropolis is a silent-film that showcases the time transcending theme of the social inequalities between the rich and the poor, between workers and the owners in capitalism.Even in 1926 when the book was written by Lang's wife Thea von Harbou, were these issues that still exist today very prevalent to people.
German born director Fritz Lang is considered by many as being the greatest director of all time.As far as German Expressionism is concerned, Fritz Lang may not ... Read More
