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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Binding: DVD EAN: 0738329027520 Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Paramount Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures MPN: D02752D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 18, 2003 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: Paramount Pictures Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1927 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - superb on all levelsMagnificent restoration, and a tremendously atmospheric score - couldn't recommend it any more than I do Rating:  - Inspirational film makingSo ahead of it's time and not comparable to anything before or since. Did a lot to show people the power of cinema in it's infancy, and to me it still looks incredible some 90+ years later. The imagination and vision of Lang's skyscraper landscapes and draconion underbelly of poverty as it's hidden foundation speaks just as loudly to today's world as it ever did. Rating: - WAIT! No Longer the Most Complete Version!Kino's Restored Authorized Edition of Metropolis is undoubtedly the most superb restoration of a film ever executed. However, as of July 1st, 2008, this is no longer the most complete version of the film available. Metropolis was originally a 210 minute film which was mercilessly chopped down to an overly simplified 80 minutes. Archivists across Europe worked tirelessly to restore Metropolis to the best of their ability, producing this 124 minute version as a result -- the longest version of Metropolis ... Read More Rating: - On MetropolisFritz Lang created a utopia in which he did not believe. He ended his masterpiece film with a message which he thought hopeless in real society. Over thirty years after the film's completion, he stated in an interview how he envisioned Metropolis: "You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hands and the brain is the heart - I mean that's a fairy tale - definitely. But I was very interested in machines." Deeper meaning must lie beneath the surface of this ... Read More Rating: - The city as nightmareBEWARE SPOILERS Fritz Lang's futuristic Metropolis is set in as it happens something like the current era. Most of the population are workers who slave underground to keep the massive machine that is the city going while the privileged stay above ground and live hedonistic lives. It is impossible not to see this in Marxian terms, the prols exploited by the capitalist class. At the time of the film's production in Germany, there was indeed a specter haunting Europe and it was indeed the specter ... Read More |
