The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray] Starring Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, et al. (2010)

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
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed

Special Features

A never-before-seen 50-minute documentary on the making and restoration of Metropolis – as well as an interview with Paula Felix-Didier, curator of the Museo del Cine, in Buenos Aires, and the Trailer to the 2010 restoration.

Product Details
UPC: 738329071325
Source: KINO VIDEO
Sound: Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound
Editions: Special Edition
Time: 2:28:00

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:
Horror Classics: 50 Movies
Metropolis/Things to Come
Sci-Fi Film Classics 2010 Calendar

Features:
Original 1927 score by Gottfried Huppertz, performed by the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, Conducted by Frank Strobel, and presented in DTS-HD Audio 5.1; "Voyage to Metropolis," a 50-minute Documentary on the Making and Restoration of the film; ; Interview with Paula Felix-Didier, curator of the Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, where the missing footage was discovered; 2010 re-release trailer