Last Tuesday Paula Félix-Didier travelled on a secret mission to Berlin in order to meet with three film experts and editors from ZEITmagazin. The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years. After examining the film the three experts are certain: The find from Buenos Aires is a real treasure, a worldwide sensation. Metropolis, the most important silent film in German history, can from this day on be considered to have been rediscovered.
Of course, the real anticipation is in wondering what Queen song they'll choose to score all the newly discovered scenes!
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The footage is apparently not in pristine condition. I wonder how much can be done to restore it?
Also, we might also consider that the film is not necessarily better for the footage's inclusion. Cinema Paradiso suffered from the reinsertion of the soap opera love story, and the giant bug sequence in Peter Jackson's King Kong would indicate that the 1933 version was indeed improved by the decision to excise a similar sequence. Just sayin'!
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