Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS!
Yesterday, May 5th, 2003, the newly restored version of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS with the original orchestral score was shown on television for the first time. It aired on TCM ( Turner Classic Movies )...
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Ah yes, well, I don't get TCM!But I did see the release at a movie house when it came out (at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, probably the only remaining rear-projection movie house left in the...
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Bruce Bishop has the large vinyl model of the ULTIMA FUTURA AUTOMATON ( i.e. 'the Maria-Bot' ) and it is quite impressive!I believe you're right - I think it was by Masudaya.Me - I've only got the the...
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It's got a pretty good list of extras (considering material for the production is so sparce!): a 43 minute documentary on the "Making of..", a small movie on the digital restoration, a photogallery of...
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Waitaminit! The girl was named Maria. The robot was named...
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"Futura". 'S in the book, I understand, by Thea von Harbou.
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She is one "sleek sack of sin"! I don't have any models of Ms. Futura, and that's a glaring hole in the collection! Not too many out there other than the ones already mentioned. Never did get the...
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Being a bit older than most of you guys,I got the opportunity to see the original in what I believe to be the last time it was shown in it s original uncut form.This was on a small UHF channel that...
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Actually, it was cut down right after its premiere, and chainsaw-edited for release in the USA. If you weren't sitting in that theater in 1927, you haven't seen the whole thing. And never will, darn...
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The movie was never shown in its full length after the premier in Germany in 1927.The version shown in the US was a hacked up print, even shorter than what was shown around EuropeSteve
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The version of "Metropolis" I saw was about four hours long.Maybe four and a half. Back in those days there were a few old time film makers and theater owners around here who had acess to stuff the...
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This is my first post here.I just recently finished a scuplt and cast of the False Maria head/mask. Ive got the majority of the costume "roughed in." LMk if interested and Ill send you some pics....
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I've always wanted to put together a 1:1 bust of False Maria but felt there wasn't enough info to do the job. There's one shot of her head-on in the movie and another with her head slightly turned to...
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Wish those links worked... I'd like to see those pics. I read an interview with Walter Shultz-Mittendorf, the sculptor, about how he made Futura and the 7 Deadly Sins suits... out of the new (then)...
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