What Swanky Things are you Watching?

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

We just watched the DVD of the restored 1920's sci-fi movie Metropolis. I was blown away by it. It was truly epic, and spectacularly put together, espeically for 1927! And the story was excellent, compelling, and insightful. What's sad is that a quarter of the movie has been lost for all time. They found and restored what they could, but they had to fill in chunks of missing plot with explanatory text. It's really too bad, because the footage they have rescued has been restored to an absoluely pristine condition. It was so clean, in fact, that it was hard to believe that it was over 70 years old. It almost looked more like a modern movie being shot to LOOK like a '20s film. Astounding.

I love this film and have been watching "new and restored" version for about 15 years now, even buying a few on the way. It's been encouraging to see this film being put back together over this time, with variety of sound tracks and treatments. Fritz Lang is a genius. Perhaps some day all the footage will finally be resotred.