Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF If you're a big fan of "Metropolis" as I am, you'll find this news extremely exciting: The remainder of the film, which has been lost for 80 years, appears to have been found. <a href="http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/metropolis-vorab-englisch" target="_blank">http://www.zeit.de/online/2008...englisch</a> <a href="http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/en/04-00-00-news.html" target="_blank">http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/...ews.html</a>
Originally Posted By vbdad55 This is soo cool ! Thanks for posting. This has been one of my alltime fave movies since I learned of it in an elective - FilmStudies class I took in 1972 from none other than Roger Ebert ( who was on staff at Univ of Illinois-Chicago) --
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ Did y'all get to see the most recent "restored" version that was in U.S. theatres about 4-5 years ago? I got to see it on the big screen, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. It was truly awesome. (If you didn't see it or didn't know about it, yes, it's available on DVD from www.kino.com!) I did like the Moroder version and wish I could get it on DVD. I still listen to the soundtrack quite a bit.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF I used to have the LD of the Moroder cut as well. Had to get rid of it before the big move from CA to MN. I used to see bootleg DVDs show up on eBay, but there must have been some sort of crackdown on them. At any rate, more good news: Kino, who released the restored cut, confirmed that the new footage will be restored for a 2009 home video release on Blu-ray and standard DVD. A 2009 release date seems almost ambitious, but we'll see, I guess.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF And a little treat... Here is the full text of the novel (public domain), written by the film's screenwriter, Thea von Harbou: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Metropolis_63" target="_blank">http://www.archive.org/details...polis_63</a>
