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Re: Metropolis


--- Don Smith <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu> wrote:
> > amounts of cash. Which might explain why the discs tend
> to
> > be so expensive... high end consumers wind up with high
> end
> > price tags. 
> 
> Simple supply and demand.  Fewer people buy Criterion
> titles,
> so on average, they have to be more expensive.  I'm sure
> the 
> few high profile titles they do (The Rock, Armageddon)
> help
> keep the cost down as much as it is.  From what I hear,
> the
> old laserdisc sets could run up to $150! 
> 
> > I'm glad to hear that a fully restored version of
> > *Metropolis* will be hitting videotheque shelves late
> this
> > spring. 
> 
> Is the new DVD going to be the version that played in LA 
> last fall? Good golly I hope so!  I hope they also include

> German intertitles.
> http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s331metropolis.html
> 
Yes... I believe this is the same Munich Film Museum
restoration that has been an ongoing process for over 15
years now. I don't know if the intertitles will be in
German, but i suspect any american release will offer either
an english intertitle version, or subtitled intertitles, a
la "The Passion of Joan of Arc" from 1925, released by the
Criterion Collection. I have heard the frame rate will be
slightly compromised to ease synchronization to the score, a
new all-digital, bells and whistles, orchestral performance
of the original score (being one of the major aids in the
restoration process, as the score, which survived intact in
its entirety, contained thematic and technical references to
each scene in the film, even those lost to censorship),
again highly similar to Criterion's release of *The Passion
of Joan of Arc (if you do not have this title, there is not
a dvd I can recommend higher off the top of my head. It is
simply an astounding title) which contains very hi fi score
composed sometime close to the dvd's release.

> I had the Madacay version on DVD, but it was just too
> painful to watch.
> 
Same here... I've never watched the dvd all the way
through... I simply can't bear it. I have a video tape
allegeedly of a print held by the Museum of Modern Art in
Nuevo York, although it is strikingly different to Giorgio
Moroder's 1985 revision of the film (which i own on a
laserdisc I can't watch -- no player -- and am considering
buying one of the video cd's of that version currently
popular on ebay), which supposedly came from a restored
negative also held by the MOMA, both in quality and content.
That tape is typically framed better and more complete than
the horrible madacy version. But still leaves much to be desired.

=====
Bradley S. Caviness, Bigwig
Bigwig Enterprises

http://www.bigwigenterprises.com

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur."
(Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

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