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Re: The Heart is the Mediator between the Hands and the Brain.



On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Brad Caviness wrote:
> In fact, from now through the rest of the year, I'm pretty much
> guaranteed to be jealous of people in many major cities in the US, if
> those people live in cities that have exhibitions of the 2001 retored
> version of Metropolis. It's not playing anywhere even remotely close to
> Little Rock, Arkansas, and Kino is not even whispering a hint of a
> release date for the dvd package until they have exhausted the entire
> theater market (a trick they seem to have learned from George Lucas).

And who knows how long it will be until it comes to Canada ...  *sigh*

> To console myself, last night I bought a bootleg dvd of the 1984 Moroder
> version of the film off ebay. But I know it won't be the same... even
> the trailer for the restored version (which you can see -- along with
> the upcoming dates and locations for theatrical screenings at
> http://www.kino.com/metropolis/showtimes.html) gives me chills.

Wouldn't it be great if the DVD included, like, *all* the versions of this
film that have been made available to date?  That'd be so cool.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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