Tag: Metropolis
The Complete 1927 Metropolis
Anybody out there unfamiliar with Fritz Lang‘s 1927 classic Metropolis?
We guess not, so you probably already had a chance to hear that last year a huge chunk of footage that was missing from this one, and presumed lost forever, was actually found in a museum’s archives in Argentina.
So, after 83 years, Lang’s Sci-Fi classic Metropolis has returned to the Berlin Film Festival in its full glory, and today there’s a trailer for the restoration, which is being released in US theaters via roadshow started in May by Kino International.
Lost footage of 1927 Film “Metropolis” surfaces in Argentina
Lost scenes from the legendary sci-fi film “Metropolis,” recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades.
A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film sat for 80 years in a private collection and then in the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires, where it was discovered in April with scratched images that hadn’t been seen before.
