After finding some missing reals from Metropolis in Argentina, we are finally going to see the movie in all of its original glory!

KINO did a great job of restoring what film was available a few years ago, I hop the restoration is as good as it is.

the only other restoration available that I know of is the 1985 "New Wave" version from Georgio Moroder, which was colorized and added a "modern soundtrack" to it, some people love it, others hate it.

 

HAMBURG, Germany, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a press
pre-release of DIE ZEIT No. 28 first on sale on Thursday, 03 July 2008


For 80 years the original version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" has been
considered lost. The ZEITmagazin shows details from the missing scenes of the
1927 masterpiece for the first time in its Thursday edition, and reports
exclusively on how the film was tracked down in the archive of the Museo del
Cine (Cinema Museum) in Buenos Aires.


Through this new discovery, key scenes from the silent film become more
intelligible, minor characters now have leading parts.


Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum in
Berlin and the series of "Retrospectives" at the Berlinale, examined the
footage for ZEITmagazin and comes to the following conclusion: "Metropolis,
Fritz Lang's most famous film, can be seen through new eyes." For him the
find represents a "sensational discovery".


Prof. Martin Koerber, the restorer of the most recent version of
"Metropolis", who also examined the footage, confirms like Rainer Rother the
authenticity of the material. He adds: "No matter how bad the condition of
the material may be, the original intention of the film, including all of its
minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for the normal
viewer. The rhythm of the film has been restored."


Enno Patalas, the film historian and former director of the Munich Film
Museum, who has been working on the reconstruction of the film since the
1970s, and was responsible along with Martin Koerber for producing the 2001
version of "Metropolis" current until today, talks of the "most authentic
material that we know" after viewing the scenes.


Helmut Possmann, director of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, the
holder of the rights to "Metropolis", said to ZEITmagazin: "The material
believed to be lost leads to a new understanding of the Fritz Lang
masterpiece." Following the discovery, the Murnau Foundation sees itself as
"responsible, along with the archive in Buenos Aires and our partners for
making the material available to the public."

Select screen images at:
http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/bg-metropolis-en

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Bunse, DIE ZEIT Press and Public Relations Department, Tel.: +49-40-3280-217,
Fax: +49-40-3280-558, email: elke.bunse@zeit.de


Contact: We would be glad to send you the complete DIE ZEIT text of the
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SOURCE Die Zeit Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co.

We just got back from watching Iron Man on the big screen, and I have to say I had set my expectations pretty high based off of friends reviews. In my opinion the best Super Hero movies are Spiderman 1 & 2, and the Incredibles, and now I will have to rank Iron Man right up there with them, there were plenty of LOL moments, excellent acting (I had my doubts about Robert Downey Jr. but he pulled it off), and good special effects.

... Have I been this excited about a new moviebeing released (not counting Spiderman 3, that is)

The Turtles are BACK! 3/30/07

TMNT Official Site

if you have trouble seeing the trailer, you can view it here.

 

Jonah Hex, the world's ugliest bounty hunter is back in an all-new series penned by Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti with art by Luke Ross. I picked up the first two issues on my last trip to one of my FLGSs. I haven't looked at comics in a long time, but Hex was always one of my favorites, and he didn't disappoint me this time either. Each book seems to have its own story, not being connected to the previous, so don't be afraid to pick this one up!