The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray] Review
This new 147-minute version includes an extra 25 minutes of footage, previously thought lost.
The film benefits from being remastered in 1080p and has a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack.
Extras include a 50-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film and an interview with Paula Felix-Didier who is the curator of Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, where the missing footage was discovered in 2008.
The restoration took a year and returns the film to the original release version seen by German cinema-goers in 1927.
This release comes in a Limited Edition Collectible 3-D Lenticuar Box Packaging.
The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray] Overview
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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