Metropolis: The Blueprint Everyone Still Steals

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premiered in Berlin in January 1927, ran too long, cost so much it helped push the UFA studio toward ruin, and was almost immediately hacked to pieces by distributors who thought audiences would not sit through it. For eighty years the full film was assumed lost. Then in 2008 an archivist in Buenos Aires found a scratched 16mm reduction print containing nearly all the missing footage, and The Complete Metropolis restoration of 2010 finally let modern viewers watch something close to what Lang built. Watching it whole, the thing that stops you is not how dated it is. It is how much of the future you thought other people invented was already sitting there, finished, in 1927.

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Metropolis: The Blueprint Everyone Still Steals