8 July 2008 2:27 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Back in December 2007 I watched Metropolis for the first time and wrote up this piece as there were rumblings that a remake was in the works. One thing I did not mention was that the version I watched was not the complete version. As a matter of fact no one, save for a select few a long, long time ago, has ever seen the complete version of Metropolis as it was edited down after being poorly received. The new cut was loved, but much of the cut footage was deemed lost forever. The DVD version I watched included as much of the lost footage as has ever been assembled, but it remained incomplete, but it seems things may change very soon. In an article posted in at Zeit Online we learn that a full-length cut of Metropolis has been found in Buenos Aires. Paula Felix-Didier, director of the museum Museo del Cine,
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