Curiosa: Director's cut?

[nebroadwe]

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.)

Comments

[ishte.livejournal.com]

I have heard of this. Not of the new print found... but of the movie. I totally want to see it. haha.

Please clicky. They won't make it to the end of the day if they don't grow up today. (http://dragcave.ath.cx/viewdragon/ZK4b) (http://dragcave.ath.cx/viewdragon/EZET)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

It's worth seeing on so many levels, IMO. At some point I need to grab the anime update for a comparison, since that's supposed to be interesting as well.

I clicked. Hope they make it!

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so! ^_^ I'll just have to keep pushing them all night. One of them is near growing up, but the other hasn't even got it's wings yet... so I don't know... My daughter's died... but her other one that she got later grew up on only 20 clicks.. so go figure.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I notice that, as of this morning, they ate'n't dead. I shall click again now that I'm at work; I can't tell whether the site accepts multiple clicks from the same IP address over a short span of time. Does it? The "click count" never seems to update on my screen.