"Rediscovered"! Metropolis.

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Metropolis Missing Footage Found
Published 7/2/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... Long-missing footage from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has, apparently, been found. Berlin-based David Hudson at GreenCine breathlessly passes along the online preview to a story that will run in Germany’s ...

Links for the Day (July 3rd, 2008)
Published 7/3/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
1. ""Rediscovered"! Metropolis.": Major, major news, courtesy David Hudson at GreenCine. ["For film historians and cinephiles in general, this could easily be the story of the year. The ZEITmagazin has just posted at its site a preview of a piece running in tomorrow's edition that confirms the existence of the original version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. "The most important silent film in German history," they announce, "can, from this day forward, be considered ...

Metropolis Now!
Published 7/3/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (C. Jerry Kutner) at Bright Lights After Dark
... Daily - that I’m too excited about not to share. An *original* version of Fritz Lang’s 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis has been discovered in a Buenos Aires film archive, including scenes long considered to be lost forever. The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation will be working with the Buenos Aires archive to restore the rediscovered scenes and make them available to the public. I can’t wait. David W. Hudson provides the story and updates here. ...

'Metropolis' found!
Published 7/3/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... , with as much as a fourth of Fritz Lang's original cut thought lost. Now, however, most of what was trimmed from the 1927 silent sci-fi epic has been found and is about to be restored, so we'll be able to see the closest version possible to Lang's original vision. I'll let GreenCine Daily tell you the whole story, but suffice it to say that this is huge, one of the greatest finds in film history (the only comparable thing might be if someone were to find the missing hours of Erich von Stroheim's Greed or the hour lopped off of Orson Welles' The Magnificent ...

Links of the Week Ending July 5, 2008
Published 7/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Moviezzz) at The Moviezzz Blog
... was there opening day to see Kristen in BROTHERS SOLOMON, and Mike Judge wasn't involved in that. Only problem, it is Mike Judge so the studio will try to bury it, like they did IDIOCRACY and KING OF THE HILL. * Do you want to here Huey Lewis and the News' theme to PINEAPPLE EXPRESS? Since they were my favorite band of the 80's, I sure do. Head on over to the My Space page. Sounds like the old Huey, if a bit more mellow. * Has a new version of METROPOLIS been found? * Seagalology? * Don't buy the new HEATHERS DVD is you have the ...

Old news: "Metropolis" found, Weinstein trash, "Ballast" solo.
Published 7/7/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... A 16mm copy of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" retrieved from Buenos Aires contains missing scenes long thought lost. David Hudson at Greencine Daily has the full report, adding "Frankly, I'm beside myself." ...

Deleted Scenes From Lang's 'Metropolis' Discovered in Argentina!!
Published 7/7/2008 by Peter Martin at Cinematical
... David Hudson detailed the discovery at GreenCine Daily and, as usual, compiled numerous links to coverage of the story. His updates indicate that the footage represents about 85% of what was considered lost forever, and that the 16mm copy is "in terrible shape," though there are high hopes that good quality images can be drawn from the material. As David wrote: "Still!" ...

RZA Runs Out of Dialogue to Sample; Will Direct His Own Kung-Fu Movie
Published 7/7/2008 at Vulture
... Lost Copy of Metropolis Found: Discovered in Argentina, the print contains many of the minutes cut from Fritz Lang's masterpiece for American release and assumed lost forever. It will be released on DVD as MetropoliXXX: Expressionist Weimar Cinema, Uncut and Unrated!! [GreenCine Daily] ...

B is for Bologna
Published 7/8/2008 by bordwellblog at Observations on film art and FILM ART
... While we were there, the news of a long version of Metropolis broke. The estimable David Hudson offers a quick guide and an abundance of links at GreenCine. A rumor went around Bologna that fragments of the new Buenos Aires print would be screened, but instead there was a twenty-minute briefing anchored by Martin Koerber of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Along with him, Anke Wilkening (Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung), Anna Bohn (Universitat der Kunste, Berlin), and Luciano Berriatua ...

Jujiro in the West
Published 7/10/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Brian) at Hell On Frisco Bay
... of the screenplay, Jujiro played "in ten countries including Germany, France, Switzerland and England". In Germany the film was screened for UFA producers, and secured a theatrical release under the title Shadows of Yoshiwara, Yoshiwara being Tokyo's licensed red-light district just outside Asakusa, where the film's action is set. Rajakaruna relates that there was some outcry from Japanese residents of Berlin over the title -- Yoshiwara was notorious, not a source of national pride. ...