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Metropolis METROPOLIS RESTORED DVD SMARTPHONES MICROSITE
Available (22nd Nov. 2010): amazon.co.uk
This has to be the UK Dvd release of 2010. The inclusion of the previously missing 25 minutes makes an enormous difference to the film, significantly changing the story line and the overall feel of the film.
There are 3 seperate releases each with a scheduled release date of 22nd November 2010. Each has superb packaging. These are the Limited Edition Dual Format Steelbook Blu-Ray & Dvd (3 discs), the 2 Dvd set & the Blu-Ray release.
MORE DETAILS: LTD EDN DUAL FORMAT STEELBOOK BLU-RAY & DVD
MORE DETAILS: 2 DVD SET
MORE DETAILS: 2 BLU-RAY
Metropolis is ruled by the powerful industrialist Joh Fredersen. He looks out from his office in the Tower of Babel at a modern, highly technicized world. Together with the children of the workers, a young woman named Maria reaches the Eternal Gardens where the sons of the city’s elite amuse themselves and where she meets Freder, Joh Fredersen’s son...more
One of the biggest film events of the century, a “Holy Grail” among film finds, Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi epic can finally be seen – for the first time in 83 years – as the director originally intended and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927...more
On January 10 1927, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premieres in Berlin in a 4189-metre version approved by the director. For the
film’s 3100-metre USA release, on March 7, Paramount take the butcher’s knife to the original and remove a quarter,
rewriting the film’s intertitles, and changing the characters’ names. Following Paramount’s lead, Ufa withdraws
Metropolis and on August 26 re-releases it in a 3241-metre cut shorn of nearly a quarter of Lang’s original. The
director profoundly opposes the savage cuts. Excised footage would remain lost to the world for more than 80 years...more
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria in 1890 and died in Los Angeles, USA in 1976. His life spanned service in World War I, spectacular fame in Germany in the 1920s, escape from the Nazis, and a period of emigre reinvention in Hollywood. He produced a series of classic films (from Metropolis, M, and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse [The Testament of Dr. Mabuse] to Fury, The Big Heat, and
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt)...more
Many iconic stills from unarguably the most influential movie of the 20th-century.
Global press reaction to the Metropolis screening at the 60th Berlinale
(Berlin International Film Festival) which took place on 12 February 2010...more
Click onto the scan below to see the quad poster in all its glory. It really does capture the power of the film like seeing the Manhatten Sklyline for the first time. The French Poster for the release and a host of other Metropolis posters are available at amazon.co.uk and can be viewed here
FRITZ LANG IN-DEPTH - METROPOLIS IN-DEPTH -
GALLERY - REVIEWS - QUAD POSTER - UK CINEMA SCREENINGS
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