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- bosssmiley, on 07/04/2008, -2/+65Long lost famous German (footage) found hiding in South America. Somehow not unexpected...
- bat-21, on 07/04/2008, -0/+59UPDATE: According to The Digital Bits, the 2009 Kino DVD/Blu-Ray release WILL include all of the recovered Buenos Aires footage.
- THES0URCE, on 07/04/2008, -0/+24Any guess as to when the footage will be restored and available to the public?
- AsSubtleAsABrik, on 07/03/2008, -1/+25So does that mean all of the lost footage has been found? Is the film complete now?
- djnack, on 07/04/2008, -0/+24I love this film. Can't wait to see the missing footage. I did a live turntable score to it at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin a few years back: http://youtube.com/watch?v=s8RhoFk1TFY
- DapperDave, on 07/03/2008, -17/+37Because this film really needed to be longer.
- deepbl, on 07/04/2008, -0/+19This is amazing news - I've been waiting most of my life to see this film in its entirety... and it's finally going to be possible.
I'm still holding out hope that someone will find the missing 60 minutes (or so) of the The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles' original rough cut before the studio raped it into its current form). Welles was down in Brazil working on another project when they made the decision to do so, and at some point all of the cut footage & outtakes were destroyed; however, there was one print of the rough cut sent to him in Brazil that he never spoke about for some reason. To this day, that print is unaccounted for... or so the story goes. The likely explanation is that he misplaced it (something Welles was known for doing).
Perhaps.. someday. - Dreamscar, on 07/04/2008, -0/+16This didn't just make my day, but my whole year so far. Metropolis is one of my favorite films ever, and one of the most landmark films in history
- danharlow, on 07/04/2008, -0/+15Very cool news. It's amazing that the film survived for so long without deteriorating. It's always nice to know great art can survive.
- mleaman, on 07/04/2008, -1/+11I had to scrounge used video shops to find a copy of Metropolis (restored version)... Hope they re-release with the missing footage!
- solid12345, on 07/04/2008, -1/+11Not according to George Lucas
- wacomwacoff, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9The longest version available to be seen since the film's debut is 118 minutes. The newly discovered footage restores the movie to the length it debuted at, and hasn't been seen at since -- 210 minutes. Pretty basic. You don't have to be pedantic about it.
- bludo, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9Wow, that's awesome, good job!
- wallyhartshorn, on 07/04/2008, -0/+8I had read in another article that they think they are still missing about 5 minutes of the original film. As for when it will be available to the public, that article indicated that it typically takes "several years" to complete the restoration work. Perhaps given the interest in this one it might happen sooner.
- Cerebron, on 07/04/2008, -0/+8OP is indicating he had to sit and watch the movie for a lengthy period of time, and now that period will increase due to the 'lost' scenes being put back in.
Analogy: it takes x hours to watch the Duck Tales DVDs, and now that the lost episodes are found, it takes x + 'lost episodes' to watch them, ergo, more time spent watching. - MastersDoctor, on 07/04/2008, -0/+8This is very good news. I hope either Criterion or Masters of Cinema does a remastered release for the complete film.
- craighoxton, on 07/04/2008, -1/+8That Fredersen guy was a replicant ALL ALONG!
- rossisdead, on 07/04/2008, -2/+9Isn't it more of a testament to the endurance of the film its printed on more so than the art itself?
- ginestony, on 07/04/2008, -0/+6I've seen parts of this movie and it literally beats any movie currently out there. The art in this movie is breathtaking.
- deepbl, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5Who gives a ***** as long as they have the footage. I would buy Metropolis brand hot dogs for a *chance* to see this footage..
- amoirae, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5Next someone needs to find Lon Cheney's London After Midnight.
- deepbl, on 07/04/2008, -13/+18The film is the same length it has always been. The problem was that the footage was lost, so they were forced to release what footage they still had.
Let me put it into terms you can understand: Pretend that the Sopranos Season One DVD set was missing 3 1/2 episodes, but they released it anyway. Then, later on, after everyone accepted that those 3 1/2 episodes were gone forever, they find a full set of all the episodes somewhere and plan to release them at some point in the future. That's essentially what's happened here.
If you like, I can rework the analogy with Duck Tales DVDs.. just let me know. - devzer0, on 07/04/2008, -2/+7LOL! I wonder how many of the clue-bees here will understand that reference.
- SoundJudgment, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5"Beware, the Concussion! Beware the Concussion!!"
..oh... wait... - rossisdead, on 07/04/2008, -5/+9Uh, you really went balls out on the abstract there, good for you. Could you include in your analogy that people stared blankly at their TVs for the length of time it would have taken to watch the missing 3.5 episodes? Because he was implying that it would now take longer to watch the whole thing.
- TehJoe, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4:O Oh god this is my favourite Sci-Fi film of all Time, and this just makes it even better!
- pashdown, on 07/04/2008, -8/+12Torrent please.
- graemee, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4I bought this, long ago on CDROM- IIRC it was a quicktime movie of the cut version. I have been waiting for the "director's" cut for a while. I wonder if the music score for those parts still exists.
- StEligius, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4This will be like the 4th version I have owned.Well I guess I'll happily buy it again like I did with Dune and Blade Runner.
- scarletspidah, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4I'm dying to see Greed. I want to see the whole 9 hour version so terribly bad.
- markthegoth, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4Does this now mean that I'll have to buy the dvd again :(
Seriously though, that's fantastic, and it gives hope to other long lost footage, such as doctor who etc. - Dorian822, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4I JUST watched this movie this week again and as I watched it I said, "Those missing scenes are out there. In someone's basement or a film vault that has never been checked. I know it." Whammy!
- StEligius, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4Hopefully someone will find the last minute or so of Fritz's "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder". A very good movie and a "talkie" to boot. I couldn't believe how modern the film felt when compared to other films from the 1930's. Serial child murder and a lynch mob made of the lower rungs of society.
Oh and as far as Metropolis hopefully its more naked Maria (Brigitte Helm) - trademark912, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4New Criterion DVD?
- Jerky1312, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3It should be encoded into Xvid and uploaded to thepiratebay in about 4 days.
- robbiedo, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3They still haven't found the audio track.
- sapbeast, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2If someone can fill in the gaps now for Greed and the 1917 Cleopatra, my life will be complete. Well it's amazingly unlikely in both of those cases, but I can always hope...
- GorfTron, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2And remember kids, if you ever find an original metropolis poster in the attic, it is worth $$$$.
- h4mx0r, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3He's saying that 3.5 episodes is still a length of screen time. If each episode is an hour long, then you have 3 and a half hours worth of Sopranos that everyone missed out on. You still have say, the first 20 hours of known Sopranos footage, plus 3.5 more hours, so now you have 23.5 hours of Sopranos, meaning the show's overall length has been extended by 3.5 hours.
- HMMcKamikaze, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2A remake, or semi-remake was already made. There's a Japanese animated film bearing the same name and a similar premise that was released in 2001.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293416/ - RenegadeRoy, on 07/04/2008, -2/+4Yeah, deepbl, you were wrong...
- kingUssop, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2Hell yes!
- oddtom, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3Absolutely not. Silent films were filmed on silver nitrate--highly degradable. They're technically a fire hazard as they can spontaneously combust. Part of the reason why about 80% of all silents are lost.
Production companies, especially with the advent of talkies, saw silents as not even worth the silver content in the film. Whole warehouses of reels were destroyed to harvest the precious metal, in some cases.
If any of these films exist to this day, it's either by sheer luck or strong artistic appreciation for the film itself by interested parties. - deepbl, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2Actually, I'm referring to the non-porn version.
- Blandyman, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2That's what he said, but he said it's nice the the art DID survive, thanks to the great film stock they used.
- cassaffousth, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2"The rediscovered material is in need of restoration after 80 years; the pictures are scratched, but clearly recognizable."
http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/metropolis-vorab ... - notoneofus, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1I've seen a half-dozen showings of Metropolis set to live music, and they've all been awesome.
- exspasticcomics, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1the official distributor is Kino...
- ieure, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Yes, it was discovered a while back. You can hear it on the Kino video DVD.
- homersaysdoh, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1How about Blu-ray instead?
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