Fritz Lang's Metropolis - FULLY Restored Version

Also on ARTE TV in Germany and France

Any German speakers able to work out what they're doing for the music?

I presume a live orchestra playing the official score?

  On 2/8/2010 at 9:59 PM, analogue wings said:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43920

AWESOME, I await a screening or two in the UK :D

Does this mean I might have to redo my little snippet for the WATMM soundtrack thang?

Very IDM new deets from AICN...

Seems they used the score to work out where the gaps in the known footage were, as well as the mood of the score to work of what scdene to put where

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the puzzle work of inserting the many cut scenes was done by a comparison to the already in 2001 restaurated version of the movie version everybody knows

 

main part of the puzzle was done by combining the working progresses "adaption" and "reconstruction" focused on the music

 

so the original music partition was more helpfull than any scripts or cutcards by its length of each partition and also dramaturgy compared to the specific scene

 

regarding the optical matters.....they where always in 3-person teams producing a "work-in-progress"

copy of the film the digital restauration where done by FIVE different external (non foundation) companies with

different techniques and even more important: philosophies

 

each of them used different techniques - in a blancing act all tried to avoid digital artefacts by diggin' to deep into the film material

 

cause they played the lost version over decades in buenos aires, you can still see in the restaurated version damages that got copied while they transfered it from 35mm to 16mm-dub-negative

Also, the score WILL be performed live by the Berlin Orchestra. Some of the posters on AICN seem to be implying that this is the first time the score will be performed in full since the 1920s (presumably they used to cut it when there were big chunks of the film missing)

Any Berliner wattumers going to go to this?

Or Eurowattumers going to tune in on ARTE at least? Maybe tape it? I'm guessing the new version is still public domain?

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The film will be premieres simultaneoulsy in premieres in Berlin and Frnakfurt. Both will be accompanied by full orchestras playing the original score. The film will also be shown at the same time on a big screen at Berlin;s famous Brandenburg Gate.

^ there's 3 places you can see it live. 2 with their own orchestras!

Saw a piece about this on BBCtv last night - would be great if Criterion gets to do a DVD treatment with all of the footage.

The story of how they found the missing pieces reminds me of the lost print of Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc", which was discovered in a mental hospital closet in Oslo.